It was Britain’s hottest day since records began last Thursday, and as expected, thousands flocked to the coast to cool off...and left piles of discarded litter behind!
Read MoreA report has found that cigarette butts make up half of all of Ireland’s litter. The report was released by the National Litter Pollution Monitoring System, and it found that cigarette-related litter makes up 54.4% of all litter in Ireland.
Read MoreThis year’s Love Parks Week (12th-21st July) is all about encouraging people to get out and enjoy their local parks. Spending time in nature is great for your mental and physical health, but while our parks are there to be enjoyed, we need to look after them.
Read MoreA report commissioned by the environmental charity Surfers Against Sewage has found that most of the litter found on the UK’s beaches and in rivers is produced by major food and drinks companies like Coca-Cola and PepsiCo.
Read MoreWould 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 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 tackle in increasing amount of plastic washing up on the UK's shores.
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.
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