After the snow melts what is left behind?

AllyG wrote:You know, I wouldn't be at all surprised if some people had deliberately thrown the drinks bottles and cigarette ends etc. on the ground from the chairlifts.

My God. You dont think so do you?????

Filthy creatures. Fag ends piss me off the most.

Anyway, hello. I have idiot strings.

NellyPS wrote:Filthy creatures. Fag ends piss me off the most.

Anyway, hello. I have idiot strings.

The ends are crap. The rest of them is ok.

Cigarettes or idiot strings?

NellyPS wrote:Cigarettes or idiot strings?

Exactly.

Hi All,

Sorry I've been absent for a while....

There is an organization ( kind of a volunteer group , will try to dig out the name ) which picks a resort each year to clean up after the holiday season is over, to clean up under the lifts...

apart from the usual , phone's , rings, watches, poles , lighters , gloves etc under one lift the year before last they collect over 30,000 cigarette butt's.....amazing and a little disgusting at the same time.

jon.

jonG wrote:Hi All,

Sorry I've been absent for a while....

There is an organization ( kind of a volunteer group , will try to dig out the name ) which picks a resort each year to clean up after the holiday season is over, to clean up under the lifts...

apart from the usual , phone's , rings, watches, poles , lighters , gloves etc under one lift the year before last they collect over 30,000 cigarette butt's.....amazing and a little disgusting at the same time.

jon.

Who counted the butt`s & why

The organisation JonG mentioned is called Mountain Riders http://www.mountain-riders.org/index_en.php In practise most of the rubbish is collected by people employed by the ski lift companies as it's easier to see the rubbish before the grass starts to grow again and it has to be removed before the cows etc. go up the alpine pastures for the summer.

The figure of 30,000 comes from Val Thorens http://www.skiclub.co.uk/skiclub/skiresorts/greenresorts/resort.aspx/Val-Thorens (scroll down until you get to "Stopping the Butts). The reason for concern is that the butts contain nicotine, a very dangerous water soluble chemical, the amount contained in about 30-40 cigarettes is enough to kill an adult. As nicotine is readily soluble in water (and just about everything else) it gets into the water supply, sometimes the cows ingest the butts which can make them ill.