‘The Inconvenient Truth about Cigarette Butts’: Shincheonji Volunteers Guri-Namyangju Branch Continues Environmental Campaign
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| Members of the Shincheonji Volunteer Group Guri-Namyangju Branch are conducting an environmental cleanup activity on 17th June, collecting cigarette butts and household waste from a flowerbed near the Dasan 2-dong Administrative Welfare Centre in Namyangju City. |
“I felt grateful to see them meticulously picking up even the litter in the corners of the flowerbeds that are hard to see.”
On 27th April, the Guri-Namyangju Branch of the Shincheonji Volunteer Group carried out an environmental clean-up campaign called ‘Nature, Be Green: The Inconvenient Truth about Cigarette Butts.’ A local resident, Jin-woo Choi (20s, male), who witnessed the volunteer work firsthand, said this.
On that day, about 30 members of the Guri-Namyangju branch participated in the volunteer work and collected a total of 60 litres of waste, including abandoned waste and cigarette butts, by going through the streets and flowerbeds in the commercial areas from the Namyangju City Hall Urban Management Office to the government office in Dasan 2-dong.
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| Members of the Shincheonji Volunteer Group Guri-Namyangju Branch are collecting discarded cigarette butts around flowerbeds and storm drains in Dasan 2-dong, Namyangju City on 17th June. |
Following the cleanup, volunteers conducted a campaign to discourage littering in daily life, using hand-held signs and banners with messages such as "Surely flowerbeds aren't used as ashtrays." The campaign informed the public about the impact of cigarette butts on health and the various diseases that result from consuming microplastics. Cigarette butts were picked up and placed in transparent glass bottles to inform the public how microplastics from cigarette butts can enter the food chain, potentially exposing humans to health risks through the consumption of contaminated drinking water.
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| Members of the Shincheonji Volunteer Group Guri-Namyangju Branch are working to improve the street environment by collecting household waste around a building in Dasan 2-dong, Namyangju City on 17th June. |
Meanwhile, the 'Nature, Be Green' programme strives to pass on a beautiful environment as a legacy to posterity through wetland conservation activities, environmental clean-ups to protect major facilities and cultural assets, environmental recovery, environmental protection public interest campaigns, and the creation of flower paths in illegal waste dumping areas.
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