PREVENTION OF LITTER
In addition to France, which print* on the paper covering of the bits of sugar served at cafes—"l am paper, please do not throw me on the floor, or words to that effect. Poland also sets a good example in the matter of tidiness. " Every lamp-post bears a bin for refute; every public garden and park has similar receptacles at every few yards, and—they are used. No Bcrap of paper, no cigarette ends, not even spent matches, disfigure the streets and public promenades of Poland. Smokers will walk up to one of these refuse-containers and drop in their 'faga' and matches. ln» streets of the cities are continuously being swept mostly by women, with long hires brooms, followed by men trundling hanO--barrows in which they carefully deposit the sweepings." A correspondent says:—" I have counted ns many as six of the barrows grouped Ri night under one lamp-post in Warsaw. Incidentally, ash trays are placed on ei*erjtable in cafes, hotels, and Polish ships; and waste-paper baskets in every bedroons in hotels; there is no excuse for an*" these is no litter in Poland."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22432, 29 November 1934, Page 14
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