Some 122 tons of cigarette butts and packaging are dropped in the UK every day but despite offers from tobacco companies to help shoulder the costs, ministers have told councils not to do so.In Tunbridge Wells, Environmental Enforcement Officers are employed by the borough council and paid to fine the public for dropping fag ends at £80 each, with those who refuse to pay ending up in court.Last month a junior Environment minister last month rejected the offer by cigarette companies to...
