Picture: Howard CrowdyNo butts about it: Carrigaline tidy towns find 6,000 cigarette butts in just four weeksA TOWN in Cork has launched a new campaign to make its streets free from cigarette butts. The Carrigaline Tidy Towns committee picked up more than 6,000 cigarette butts on the main street in the town over a four week period. Pictured at the launch of the 'Smoke It Stub It Bin It' cigarette butt awareness campaign by the Carrigaline Tidy Towns were volunteers Catherine McSweeney, Siobhan Walsh, Liam O'Connor (Chairman Tidy Towns); Betty O'Riordan, Maura Allen and Claire O'Mullane. However, despite the efforts of the dedicated group and volunteers, they added that one thing that is constantly blighting the streets: Cigarette butts. “Simply put, cigarette butts are litter and throwing a cigarette butt on the street is a littering offence, subject to a €150 fine.

Source: Evening echo September 08, 2018 08:24 UTC