Amsterdam clamps down on litter-lout smokers

Puffin13 · Post by **Puffin13** » Tue 30th Mar 2010 06:30 am

Amsterdam clamps down on litter-lout smokers
29/03/2010

From now on dropping a cigarette end on the pavement in the Amsterdam district of Westerpark will cost you 90 euros.

A national anti-litter organisation has launched a pilot campaign along with the district council to ban cigarette ends from the streets. The organisation claims that unsightly cigarette ends account for 50 percent of the litter dropped in the Netherlands – just a fraction of the 3.5 trillion cigarette ends dropped around the world each year.

The pilot scheme will try out different approaches in different areas of the district, including an increase in the number of litterbins with built-in ashtrays. The scheme is launched today with the unveiling of a four-metre high ashtray-equipped litterbin in the local park. However, the cheerful information campaign is backed by a hefty 90-euro fine for unwary smokers who flick their cigarette ends on the pavement.

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Kermit · Post by **Kermit** » Tue 30th Mar 2010 08:39 am

Good, i hate seeing fage ends and spliff ends all over the place.

Marco · Post by **Marco** » Tue 30th Mar 2010 09:23 am

They need to work on the dog shit first.

indk · Post by **indk** » Tue 30th Mar 2010 10:06 am

Marco wrote:They need to work on the dog shit first.

I now know why stuart1976 didn't opt for the slippers in his latest TR

Marco · Post by **Marco** » Tue 30th Mar 2010 10:08 am

If the French could get people to clean up after their dogs, anyone can!

Kingdoc · Post by **Kingdoc** » Tue 30th Mar 2010 05:36 pm

I ALWAYS put my buts in the bin after stubbing them out,I hate all the little baggies you see lying around the place at night! it gives the impresion us smokes dont give a f**k.

Toker70 · Post by **Toker70** » Tue 30th Mar 2010 08:12 pm

It drives me crazy when ppl just throw their ciggy ends on the ground.Like its so hard to walk a few extra feet and stub it out in a bintray,lazy feckers

Max Flower · Post by **Max Flower** » Wed 31st Mar 2010 04:20 am

indk wrote:
Marco wrote:They need to work on the dog shit first.
I now know why stuart1976 didn't opt for the slippers in his latest TR

Maybe this song by Mojo Nixon, will make Marco and Stuart feel better.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWBQdWzBukI

TRANCE · Post by **TRANCE** » Wed 31st Mar 2010 08:30 am

It takes nothing to put fag ends in a bin just as much as it takes nothing to clear up and return your glass to the bar when you leave a coffeeshop or pub rather than just walk out. That one always bugs me when I see tourists do it.