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IN PARIS ANY CIGARETTE BUTT THROWN IN THE STREET WILL BE FINED € 68

FROM 1ST OCTOBER 2015


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(Source: courtesy city hall of Paris)
USPA NEWS - “Starting today, any cigarette butt thrown in the street in Paris will be fined € 68. The cleanliness of our city is everybody's concern: let us mobilise, educate our family "Said Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris. For this, a hundred inspectors will walk the Paris streets and distribute tickets.
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Source: City Hall of Paris
In Paris, it will cost € 68 to indiscipline smoker who throws his cigarette butt on the floor. This punitive fine, will be in force from 1 October. For this, a hundred inspectors will walk the Paris streets and distribute tickets. The goal is to educate and show them the smoking ashtrays located in the baskets levels.---------------------------------------------------------------------------- According to figures from the municipalities of Paris, there would be a ton of butts a day in Paris. Thus, a butt puts 12 years to be eliminated. This figure seems maddening and should discourage lazy people who throw their cigarette butts on the ground, even when the ashtrays are often made available for smokers.------------------------------------------------------------------- At few weeks before the preparation of the COP21, the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, wants to make her voice heard, through these judged "harmful" little gestures and educate Parisians and those visiting Paris, by the repression against the tips pollutants cigarettes. "Invisible safety inspectors" will be spread in Paris, seeking the misdemeanor butts but especially the blatant throwing a cigarette butt after smoking.
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