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A smoker learned an expensive lesson when he was slapped with an immediate fine as a penalty for throwing a cigarette butt into a paper incense burner.
Although some might think it’s not an offense, all things turn to ashes in the trash anyway, actually it is. Under the Environmental Public Health Act, it is illegal to litter in any public place except in a garbage can or other container provided for the garbage disposal.
In other words, Joss’s paper burners are not places to litter.
In an image that has been circulating on social media, a smoker received an official summons from the National Environment Agency (NEA) ordering the offender to pay a painful $ 300 fine. The receipt was allegedly delivered on Monday (October 5) morning after the smoker was seen throwing a cigarette butt into a burner on Senja Road.
The crime does not only apply to cigarette butts; the relevant section of the law states that no one should “deposit, drop, place or throw dust, dirt, paper, ashes, corpses, waste, boxes, barrels, bales or any other item or thing” anywhere other than a garbage can.
Some people were surprised that throwing things into paper incense burners is considered illegal, while others pointed out that it is considered disrespectful regardless of legality.
