Tuesday, October 17, 2017

This startup is training crows to throw away cigarette butt litter

Did you know? The average cigarettes take twelve years to decompose. This is a problem, as they are the most littered item on Earth. Every year, approximately 4.5 trillion cigarettes are discarded with little regard for the environment. Fortunately, the new startup Crowded Cities has a plan to rid streets of this type of pollution, and it involves training crows to exchange them for food. It is now a well-established fact that crows are one of the smartest animals in the world. Not...

from Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building https://inhabitat.com/this-startup-is-training-crows-to-throw-away-cigarette-butt-litter
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