Turning cigarette butt waste into an alternative control tool against an insecticide-resistant mosquito vector

• Main Authors: Dieng, Hamady, Rajasaygar, Sudha, Abu Hassan, Ahmad, Hamdan, Ahmad, Che Salmah, Md Rawi, Wan Fatma, Zuharah, Satho, Tomomitsu, Miake, Fumio, Fukumitsu, Yuki, Ahmad Ramli Saad, Ramli Saad, Idris, Abd Ghani, Vargas, Ronald Enrique Morales, Abdul Hafiz, Ab Majid, Sazaly, AbuBakar
• Format: E-Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V. 2013
• Subjects: GE Environmental Sciences
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/9909/1/Turning%20cigarette%20butt%20waste%20into%20an%20alternative%20control%20tool%20againstan%20insecticide-resistant%20mosquito%20vector%20%28abstract%29.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/9909/; http://ac.els-cdn.com/S0001706X13002180/1-s2.0-S0001706X13002180-main.pdf?_tid=57db921c-94e3-11e5-ab37-00000aab0f27&acdnat=1448614165_cb1fa98630a87a80189863b8755da9b9

Annually, 4.5 trillion cigarette butts (CBs) are flicked into our environment. Evidence exists that CB waste is deadly to aquatic life, but their lethality to the aquatic life of the main dengue vector is unknown. CBs are full of toxicants that occur naturally, during planting and manufacturing, w...