NEW TAIPEI CITY:Incentives, including prizes and lottery tickets, brought the city together to clean up cigarette butts from beaches, water and sidewalks
Taipei Times
Date: Oct 19, 2019
By: Dennis Xie / Staff writer, with CNA
The New Taipei City Government has launched a campaign encouraging people to protect the
A pastic jug containing collected cigarette butts is dropped off by a New Taipei City resident at the city’s Department of Environmental Protection on Thursday.
Photo: CNA
According to the government, cigarette butts have become one of the biggest ocean polluters, as toxins contained in the fibers of cigarette filters flow through sewers, rivers and eventually reach the oceans.
These toxins — which pollute the land and water as well as the ocean and sea animals — might eventually find their way back to our bodies through biological accumulation, it added.
The city reiterated the call on Thursday, encouraging the public to participate in its campaign called “A Homeland Without Cigarette Butts” to encourage removal of cigarette butts in New Taipei City.
During the campaign period from Aug. 13 to Oct. 31, people can exchange cigarette butts for gifts, it said.
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