In order to further enhance the quality of the whole people and the awareness of environmental protection, help the creation of civilized cities across the country, and create a clean and comfortable urban environment, on February 15, 2022, to welcome the Lantern Festival, the Jiaocheng County Ecological environmental protection volunteer association launched the volunteer activity of "picking up small cigarette butts and picking up big civilization". At 9:00 a.m., environmental protection volunteers and more than 50 college student volunteers returned to their hometowns cleaned up the county government square, the county government courtyard, Yongning Road, Xinkai Road, and Beihuan Road Park.
Small cigarette butts test big qualities, and small actions reflect big civilization. Smoking is harmful to health and can also lead to environmental pollution. Studies have shown that the plastic outer film on the cigarette filter and packaging is composed of cellulose acetate, and a cigarette butt can take as little as 2 years and as long as 25 years to degrade into smaller fragments. Each cigarette lit will release 4,000 kinds of toxic and harmful substances, most of which will remain in discarded cigarette butts, and can produce at least 1.2 million tons of such toxic wastes worldwide every year. Smoking is not only a health problem, but also an environmental problem, if the cigarette butt is discarded casually, into the sewers, rivers, etc., it will lead to soil and water pollution, and then harm the health of various organisms and humans.
Jiaocheng County Ecological Environmental Protection Volunteer Association carried out the "cigarette butt revolution" volunteer service practice activities with the main content of "cigarette butts do not land, Jiaocheng is more beautiful" to create a clean and orderly, beautiful and beautiful, warm and comfortable urban environment. At the event, volunteers carried clips, dustpans, brooms and other tools to pick up discarded cigarette butts, scraps of paper, plastic bags and so on in the square area. There is very little garbage on the side of the road, but there are a lot of waste paper scraps, cigarette butts and even drink bottles hidden in the green belt and lawn, although these garbage is not visible to others, but it also causes damage to our environment. The beautiful environment needs you and me to maintain together, the cleanliness of the city is shared by everyone, pick up small cigarette butts, create a big civilization, you and I work together in action, in the process of picking up and cleaning, volunteers through vigorous publicity and education to the public, so that the concept of "non-smoking areas do not smoke, smoking areas civilized smoking" deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, forming a good trend of "cigarette butts are not thrown away, strive to be civilized people". You and I civilization are a small step, and urban civilization is a big step. Bend down to pick up a cigarette butt, garbage, don't throw away the clutter... A small change can also make the city look new. It seems to be a micro-action in the city, but each meager force adds up to a powerful force, and small actions also have big deeds, and small cigarette butts can also pick up 'big civilization'. "The more you raise your hand, the more civilized good deeds you have." Creating a civilized city and a civilized community is the unshirkable responsibility of every citizen, and we should start from ourselves and strive to be the guardian, practitioner and supervisor of the civilized city. Let the wind of civilized practice blow all over the land of Jiaocheng and make our homeland cleaner and more beautiful. (Recorder: Zhang Jin)
Editor-in-Charge: Wu Di