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Who picks up your cigarette butts?

The Swiss Federal Railways cleaning specialists have to remove cigarette butts from the railway tracks laboriously by hand. At Zurich’s main station alone they fill a 110 litre rubbish bag every day. Enough to make smoke come out of the employees’ ears. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)

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