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

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.

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

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 be surprising that plastic bags and straws account for so little.

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Hillwalkers and Climbers Urged to Keep Mountains Free From Litter

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 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.

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Highways England Set to Join Great British Spring Clean

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 the side of the roads every year. This year they have stepped up to support the Great British Spring Clean.

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Wet Wipes are Clogging Our Sewers and Killing Our Rivers

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 the River Thames. To put it in perspective 4000 wipes were picked up along 400 metres of river bank.

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Nestle to Join Project Aimed at Preventing Marine Litter

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. Estimates say that there is around 150 million tonnes of plastic in our oceans at the moment, with over half of it coming from 5 countries.

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Can Packaging Manufacturers Really Solve the Litter Problem

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 clean up, with the main source of litter being chewing gum and cigarette butts.

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All That Glitters is Bad for the Environment

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 made from plastics which can take 450 years to break down

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The Battle Against Marine Plastic is Far from Over

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 tackle in increasing amount of plastic washing up on the UK's shores.

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The International Maritime Organisation Steps Up to Tackle Marine Litter

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 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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