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The Town Where Gossiping is a Crime (and the Punishment is Litter Picking!)

May 1, 2019 Dean Botham

Would you stop gossiping about your neighbours if you thought you’d be fined and forced to pick up litter if you got caught? That’s the fate of peo...

Plastic Bottles are the Most Common Form of Litter in European Rivers

April 15, 2019 Adam Watts

In a report from the Earthwatch Insitute has found that plastic bottles are what makes up most of the plastic litter in European waterways. It may ...

Hillwalkers and Climbers Urged to Keep Mountains Free From Litter

March 27, 2019 Dean Botham

Hillwalkers and climbers are being urged to take part in a clean up campaign that will rid the country’s mountains of litter. The British Mountaine...

Highways England Set to Join Great British Spring Clean

March 12, 2019 Adam Watts

Highways England has urged drivers to do their bit to help reduce litter found on motorways, each year 200,000 bags of litter are collected from th...

Wet Wipes are Clogging Our Sewers and Killing Our Rivers

February 26, 2019 Adam Watts

Wet wipes that have been flushed down the toilet made up a huge 77% of the waste that was picked up during a charity litter pick on the banks of th...

Nestle to Join Project Aimed at Preventing Marine Litter

February 7, 2019 Adam Watts

Nestle has become one of the latest strategic partners of Project Stop which is an initiative to help prevent plastic pollution in South East Asia....

Can Packaging Manufacturers Really Solve the Litter Problem

February 1, 2019 Adam Watts

Despite all of the clean ups and education programmes, litter is still a huge problem and it costs local authorities around £1 billion per year to ...

All That Glitters is Bad for the Environment

January 31, 2019 Dean Botham

Over the festive season you would have seen plenty of it over the festive season, but this could be bad for the environment. Standard glitter is ma...

The Battle Against Marine Plastic is Far from Over

December 4, 2018 Dean Botham

The Marine Conservation Society have said that despite huge efforts by volunteers to clean up the UK beaches, there is still much to be done to tac...

The International Maritime Organisation Steps Up to Tackle Marine Litter

November 23, 2018 Adam Watts

The IMO is set to begin a huge scale study on how it can help reduce the amount of plastic, the study would look at current litter levels and port ...

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