The city launched a similar campaign in 2012, but it was stubbed out before making much of an impact. The city government recently rebooted its effort to improve its “dirty reputation” (link in French), deploying 30,000 new litter bins outfitted with ashtrays. But the stiffer fines, hiked from €35 per infraction, are the most serious escalation in Paris’s ongoing war on waste.

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