{"id":2565,"date":"2017-05-23T02:56:19","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T02:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/?p=2565"},"modified":"2017-05-23T02:56:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T02:56:19","slug":"sound-absorbing-material-from-cigarette-butts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/?p=2565","title":{"rendered":"Sound absorbing material from cigarette butts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cigarette_butts_960_720.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2566\" src=\"http:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cigarette_butts_960_720-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"cigarette_butts_960_720\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cigarette_butts_960_720-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cigarette_butts_960_720-133x89.jpg 133w, https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cigarette_butts_960_720-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cigarette_butts_960_720-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cigarette_butts_960_720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I can see this recent article as a contender for an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.improbable.com\/ig\/\">Ig Nobel prize<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0003682X17300233\">Acoustical performance of samples prepared with cigarette butts<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Spanish researchers from Departamento de F\u00edsica Aplicada, Escuela Polit\u00e9cnica, Universidad de Extremadura, measured the sound absorbing properties of cigarette butts.\u00a0 Given the enormous number of cigarette butts that get thrown away, which don&#8217;t decompose very well, it is great that someone tried to find a use for waste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can see this recent article as a contender for an Ig Nobel prize &#8220;Acoustical performance of samples prepared with cigarette butts&#8221; Spanish researchers from <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"entry-more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/?p=2565\" class=\"entry-more-link entry-more-link-excerpt btn btn-primary\"><span>Read More<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2567,"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions\/2567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noiseboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}