Snitches get riches reporting cigarette butt littering in Miaoli County

April 23, 2021April 23, 2021 Phillip Charlier 1 Comment littering, Miaoli County

The Miaoli County Environmental Protection Bureau announced today that it has already received reports of 10,994 littering cases of which 90% consisted of dropping cigarette butts via the “Incentive Measures for Violation of Waste Clearance Cases” system this year. Two informants reported more than 800 cases of littering in a single month, and if every case results in a fine, each of those two informants will have earned more than NT$384,000 (US$13,672). The calculation is based on a fine of

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December 6, 2020June 20, 2023 Phillip Charlier 0 Comment environmental protection bureau, Kaohsiung City, littering

A man in Kaohsiung City plans to lodge an appeal after receiving 22 fines in the mail, all at once, for dropping 22 cigarette butts in a period of less than two hours. Mr Zeng said that he was in a bad mood on the evening of September 28, when he sat in the driver’s seat of his car, and chain smoked 22 cigarettes between 11:00 pm and 12:40 am. Zeng dropped each cigarette butt onto the road, unaware that