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Kids offered ice cream for cigarette butts

A coffee shop owner, Jian Chuntian, won plaudits from netizens and local residents recently for offering incentives to children in Xi'an to help clean up the environment. The Green Donkey coffee shop gives primary school students a free ice cream if they pick up 20 cigarette stubs from the street and hand them in to the shop. Jian said he started the program in September 2016 and so far has collected an estimated 50,000 butts.