The Maldives are the latest nation to join the UN campaign which aims to help eliminate marine litter, in today's economy we use 20 times more plastic than we did in the 1960's. More than 8 million tonnes of plastic end up in our oceans which can cause some serious damage to marine life.
Read MoreScotland are encouraging all businesses and local councils to join a campaign to help prevent littering and flytipping across the country. Zero Waste Scotland say taxpayers are currently paying over £50 million per year and that 15,000 tonnes of litter is discarded in Scotland each year.
Read MorePhiladelphia has generated the nickname filthadelphiao because of it's problem with litter, on average each resident disposes of 1 ton of litter per year. The city has committed to the Zero Waste and Litter Executive Order which sets a goal of achieving zero waste by 2035.
Read MoreWherever you are there is a always a litter problem, its harmful to health, wildlife and the environment, we take a look at some of the facts of littering, one of which is NASA being fined $400 when parts of their space rocket debris landed in Australia.
Read MoreSurfers Against Sewage are one of the UK's leading marine conservation charities and campaign on a range of marine convservation issues. The chairty was born in 1990 and focused solely on the issue of water pollution, their charity has grown and now they are advocates of clean oceans on a global scale
Read MoreWaitrose has joined the fight against litter, the company is donating £500,000 from their carrier bag fund to help the Marine Conservation Society and the money will be used to organise beach clean ups generate campaigns to get the public involved with the fight against litter.
Read MoreNew taxes are being considered in Wales, and the government are asking the public for their views and suggestions, one of the ideas is the deposit return scheme on plastic bottles, this is where you pay a slight deposit when you buy a plastic bottle and when recycled this deposit is refunded.
Read MoreGermany has some of the strictest litter laws in the world, which obviously work as the German streets are almost immaculate. In Germany they introduced a bottle deposit scheme as well as shopkeepers by law are required to keep the pavement outside of their shop clean.
Read MoreChewing gum is one of the worst types of litter, resistant to a lot of removal methods and it does not degrade which then proves expensive when it can be removed. In Ennis a chewing gum taskforce has been set up which aims to educate about the problems of chewing gum litter, proving successful with now 6 out of 7 now saying they would dispose of the gum correctly.
Read MoreCigarette litter is the most commonly dropped litter today, and Paris is the fight against it, if you are caught discarding any cigarette litter you can expect a €68 fine which is part of a national campaign in Paris. Other campaigns has been launched in the past but have failed and now officials believe fines are ethe only way to combat the issue.
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