According to the report from the Local.dk, the amount of cigarette butts littering Copenhagen has exploded by 71 percent since tougher anti-smoking laws took effect in 2007.
The City of Copenhagen says that discarded cigarettes account for more than four fifths of all the rubbish cleared from the city's streets.
“We haven’t been good enough at ensuring that smokers have a place to put their cigarette butts. I’m now going to fix that in cooperation with the restaurant industry, traffic companies and others with interest in having a clean city,” the city's deputy mayor, Morten Kabell, told Metroxpress.
The City of Copenhagen says that discarded cigarettes account for more than four fifths of all the rubbish cleared from the city's streets.
“We haven’t been good enough at ensuring that smokers have a place to put their cigarette butts. I’m now going to fix that in cooperation with the restaurant industry, traffic companies and others with interest in having a clean city,” the city's deputy mayor, Morten Kabell, told Metroxpress.