The move is part of legislative changes made in compliance with a European Union directive which bans single-use plastic straws, cutlery and other disposable plastics.Harriet Donnelly, CEO of charity Flossie and the Beach Cleaners, says that paying them would encourage people to volunteer more and help reduce the pollution caused by cigarette butts.
Ms Donnelly explained that butts are much harder to clean up as they're small and filters are"pretty invisible".use new legislation to greenwash their productsGreenwashing is a form of advertising or marketing spin in which green marketing is deceptively used to persuade the public that an organisation's products and policies are environmentally friendly.
The anti-smoking group's Director General, Professor Luke Clancy, has said that the way the new scheme is run is what's most important. When similar legislation was introduced in France,"the industry turned it around and made it an opportunity for greenwashing".Prof Clancy says they did this in an attempt to portray themselves"as the good guys".
According to Prof Clancy, they tried to put the responsibility of pollution on smokers rather than the companies selling cigarettes.Main image shows a young man smoking a cigarette. Picture by: RayArt Graphics / Alamy Stock Photo
No people shouldn't litter. And there should be fines for those that do. Fines that aren't optional. Fines that if not paid result in asset seizure or in extreme circumstances prison. We don't even pretend our bye laws are anything more than words on paper these days.
The government takes a tenner for each packet. I.e cigarettes in Lisbon are a fiver, Ireland: 14-15 euro. So, I suggest Ireland uses that tenner a box, to pay binmen and cleaners, and stop messing.
The country is going down the toilet and fffgg concentrate on fag buts.
🤣 Jesus with all the things going in in this country is this a story your airing?