Japanese man helps clear 4,500 cigarette butts littered by smokers in Putrajaya

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PETALING JAYA, May 29 — A Japanese man helped pick up a shocking 4,500 cigarette butts from the streets of Putrajaya during a clean-up run earlier this year.

The man, known as Nana, posted a photo to Twitter on Tuesday displaying the mountain of rubbish he managed to pick up at the Ayer@8 area in Putrajaya within one and a half hours.

“So many cigarette butts littered everywhere,” he wrote in Japanese along with a crying emoji.

He then wrote a follow-up tweet in Malay explaining that he picked up the trash during a clean-up run with environmentalist group Trash Hero Putrajaya a few months ago.

According to a pinned tweet on his profile, Nana currently resides in Cyberjaya and likes to volunteer for various charity initiatives.

When he’s not busy lending a hand to Mother Nature, Nana spends his time learning the local language and often tweets in a combination of his mother tongue and Malay.