Cigarette litterbug receives 22 tickets over 2 hours in southern Taiwan

Reckless behavior recorded and reported, costing offender over US$900

Taiwan News
Date: 2020/12/06
By: Huang Tzu-ti, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A person in Taiwan has received 22 notices for committing an environmental offense, after discarding 22 cigarette butts from a car within two hours.

A Facebook user on Saturday (Dec. 5) posted photos of a pile of violation tickets issued by the Environmental Protection Bureau (EPB) of Kaohsiung City that indicated the illegal disposal of 22 cigarette butts in the same location over two hours on Sept. 28.    [FULL  STORY]