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 people in a town in the Philippines who get caught spreading rumours.
Read MoreHillwalkers and climbers are being urged to take part in a clean up campaign that will rid the country’s mountains of litter. The British Mountaineering Council (BMC) will launch the initiative at the Sheffield Adventure Film Festival. The campaign is going to be called ‘The Hills to Oceans; Removing Mountains of Waste’ or H2O for short.
Read MoreHighways 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 the side of the roads every year. This year they have stepped up to support the Great British Spring Clean.
Read MoreDespite 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 clean up, with the main source of litter being chewing gum and cigarette butts.
Read MoreThe 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 reception facilities for litter and think about possible new measures to make it compulsory to make a declaration when shipping containers are lost at sea.
Read MoreFife council are backing a new campaign that is encouraging people to think before they discard their chewing gum or litter on the street, 'Bin it Your Way' is a chewing gum action group annual campaign which is run across 80 local authorities.
Read MoreLitter bins in North East Lincolnshire are set to be replaced with bigger ones and some of them will contain solar powered waste compactors. The plans to introduce the new bins came about after a council meeting regarding litter in the area.
Read MoreCommunal underground bins are being considered in a bid to tackle the litter problems in the city, the council are currently spending in excess of £6 million cleaning up and repairing alleyways which are too narrow for wheelie bins.
Read MoreKeep Britain Tidy has launched a new campaign to combat discarded litter butts, #BanTheButt was launched in Manchester at the end of August and 40 large cigarette butts have been installed in St Peter's Square.
Read MoreA beach cleaning charity on the Isle of Man has suggested that drones could be used to help them find hidden litter around the coastline. Drone projects have already been used around England and Scotland to help highlight litter hotspots.
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