A street cleaner in eastern China who was filmed complaining about the hefty fines he had to pay for the cigarette ends found littering his section of road has won a hearing for his case and the support of internet users, social media site Pear Video said on Tuesday.
“Today, I had to clean up five or six thousand cigarette butts,” the man said in the video while working outside a subway station.The man blamed littering on unauthorised taxi drivers who throw cigarette ends into the street. Pear Video spoke to other street cleaners in Zhengzhou, who confirmed that they were fined 7 yuan per cigarette butt found after cleaning.
“[Management patrol] will say things like this because they want to supervise the street cleaners. But there are no detailed written guidelines, and this was never formally implemented,” a representative from the Zhengzhou City Management Command Centre was quoted as saying in the report.The Zhengzhou official said the centre would investigate further and speak to the street cleaners about fines.“When [Pear Video] investigated they say it hasn’t been implemented.