Japanese Man Helped Clean Up 4,500 Cigarette Butts Littered Around Putrajaya

He also picked up a whopping 202kg of litter with other volunteers in Cyberjaya.

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Cover image via Twitter @NanaCyber2

A Japanese man helped clean up an alarming 4,500 cigarette butts from the streets of Putrajaya earlier this year

The man, who goes by Nana on Twitter, posted a photo on Tuesday, 26 May, showing the piles of discarded cigarette waste he managed to pick up around the Ayer@8 shopping district in Precinct 8.

"So many cigarette butts littered everywhere," he wrote with a crying face emoji.

He then explained in Bahasa Malaysia that he had joined Trash Hero Putrajaya in January and collected that large amount of trash with other volunteers in a mere one and a half hours.

The environmentalist groupĀ posted that cigarette butts were the most common type of rubbish they found during that first clean-up of the year.

They reported that 30 volunteers, including Nana, had collected a total of 21kg of trash that day left by irresponsible citizens.

According to his Twitter profile, Nana, who has been living in Malaysia for four years now, currently lives in Cyberjaya

He wrote that he enjoys doing charity work in Malaysia and learning the national language.

He had volunteered for another clean-up with Trash Hero Putrajaya sometime in February where they picked up a whopping 202kg worth of rubbish at Gem In Mall, Cyberjaya before the Movement Control Order (MCO) was implemented.

"In two hours, we picked up 202kg of rubbish including bottles, cigarette butts, and more," he tweeted in fluent Bahasa Malaysia.

However, since the MCO began, Trash Hero Putrajaya has halted all clean-ups for the safety of their volunteers.

Netizens have since thanked Nana for his volunteer work and expressed their disappointment toward fellow Malaysians

"A Japanese man is picking up cigarette butts after you. Can't you throw them away properly after you're done smoking?" questioned a Twitter user.