Now, I know the difficulties in training visual models (see: hotdog vs. not hotdog), but surely we could at least have #ButtBot that only picks out #cigarette #butts from lawns and parking lot surfaces.

By then, I was able to track down yet further information on yellowed acrylic and that suggested to me that the yellowing I was seeing was more likely due to the pendant lamp's placement near a #window and #UV source, NOT #cigarette #tar.

Alas, it seems the only scientifically-proven way to remove such yellowing is with a LOT of hydrogen pyroxide and hours (days?) in the sunlight -- something not possible under my living conditions.

21/x

The #IKEA #FibreOptic / #FiberOptic pendant lamp I found looked like a typical case of #cigarette #tar.

It looked exactly as though the lamp had hung near someone's favourite chair they used whenever they had a smoke.

The brownish-yellow staining was along the lower side and around some of the edges in exactly the pattern you'd expect from #SecondhandSmoke.

18/x

Again, I'm #poor. I live on a provincial #disability pension that hasn't been raised since three governments ago, while the #covid19 #pandemic has literally tripled my food expenses (nvm nearly anything else).

#Secondhand is frequently my first choice, and I'm long accustomed to needing to clean all mannger of stuff from older things, including #cigarette #tar from especially #vintage items.

17/x