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A 22 Year Rids Paris of Cigarette Butts By Hand, Makes a Dress, and Saves the Rainforest
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Stereotypes about Parisians are well known: the snobbery, the love of stinky cheese, the baguette under the arm and the cigarette on the lips. I won't comment on the first three, but the fourth holds up pretty well. Certainly, not everyone in Paris smokes, but there are a lot of smokers, and, as a result, tons of cigarette butts strewn all over.
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