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​2017
Delhi High Court appoints littering magistrates to tackle garbage woes  (June 30, 2017)
Full Story
Dead seal found with plastic around neck  (June 30, 2017)
Tragedy
Ashville boarders spend afternoon litter picking  (June 30, 2017)
Teamwork
Houghton Police crack down on cigarette butt littering  (June 30, 2017)
New Plan
Like smoking, it’s hard to quit littering butts  (June 30, 3017)
Opinion
Local leaders seek to curb Schenectady’s litter problem   (June 29, 2017)
On The Case
The horrors of marine litter   (June 29, 2017)
Get The Facts
Vital for our future to reduce litter   (June 29, 2017)
South Africa
Robotic arm could clean up litter in space  (June 29, 2017)
Innovation
Companies that are littering the roads with cement will be fined  (June 29, 2017)
Read More
Environmentalist calls for litter laws to be enforced  (June 29, 2017)
Story Here
Winners of 'Don't Litter, Recycle' poster contest announced  (June 28, 2017)
Results
Wardens now handing out litter fines in Southport  (June 28, 2017)
Read More
Limerick's mayor launches 2017 Gum Litter Taskforce  (June 28, 2017)
Story Here
Weekly launches front page bid to rid patch of litter  (June 28, 2017)
Good Move
Hollywood's Will Smith and family clean up beaches on Antipaxos while on Ionian cruise  (June 28, 2017)
Star Power
Vintage photos: Bourbon Street litter crackdown targets corn on the cob  (June 27, 2017)
A Look Back
San Juan celebrations leave 28 tons of litter on Malaga’s beaches  (June 27, 2017)
Story Here
Heroic Glastonbury festival litter pickers make impressive progress with Worthy Farm clean up  (June 26, 2017)
Read More
Dirty nappies, bottles and cans: we are losing the battle on beach litter  (June 26, 2017)
Opinion
Littering issues in the spotlight  (June 25, 2017)
Learn More
Capital litter  (June 25, 2017)
Letter
Call to nationalise Beitbridge Mayor’s Marathon  (June 25, 2017)
Story Here
Monies for installation of cameras at bin sites to be taken from anti-litter fund  (June 24, 2017)
Read More
Luyang schools get litter free status  (June 24, 2017)
Good Work
​Litter:  Council not responsible  (June 24, 2017)
Letter
Wexford County Council to launch campaign against chewing gum  (June 24, 2017)
Has Plan
East Hertfordshire’s police chief says officers won’t be deployed to assist litter clampdown  (June 24, 2017)
Story Here
Fears that litter eyesore could see Tidy Town’s efforts go to waste  (June 24, 2017)
Spoilers
Anti-litter campaign people call on authorities to act on ‘rubbish racket’  (June 23, 2017)
Full Story
Another summer of litter shaming?  (June 23, 2017)
Column
Litter pickers blitz city  (June 23, 2017)
Read More
Don’t litter our beaches  (June 23, 2017)
Letter
Littering law laid waste in Vietnam’s capital city  (June 22, 2017)
Must Read
People urged to keep beaches litter free  (June 22, 2017)
Appeal
Man fined for offensive language and littering  (June 22, 2017)
Crime News
South Essex College reminds students littering wardens set increase powers to snare teenagers  (June 21, 2017)
Story Here
Littering prevention campaign set for today  (June 21, 2017)
Read More
Over £11,000 in fine issued as Thurrock Council defend litter bug clampdown  (June 21, 2017)
Clampdown
Anti-fouling mayor of County Cork asks dog owners to keep public parks litter free  (June 21, 2017)
Leadership
'Keep Canberra nude': Bold campaign to maintain Canberra's outdoor advertising ban  (June 21, 2017)
Full Story
Plea for help to tackle beach litter  (June 21, 2017)
Not Wanted
Bengaluru litter bins  (June 21, 2017)
View Here
Police searching for stolen city 'Litter Patrol' vehicle  (June 20, 2017)
"Wanted"
Winners announced as Big Litter Pick 2017 ends  (June 20, 2017)
Read More
​New litter network is far from rubbish  (June 20, 2017)
Scotland
Next time throw that trash in the litter bin  (June 20, 2017)
Free Advice
Community participation in Swachh Bharat Abhiyan: Umthli Village turns litter free with ‘Swachh Saturdays’​  (June 20, 2017)
In India
Litter bins to segregate dry, wet waste launched  (June 20, 2017)
Progress
Rs. 200 fine for littering in Nagercoil town  (June 20, 2017)
Coming Soon
Blue, green litter bins are back in Bangalore  (June 19, 2017)
Good News
Isle of Wight: Litter fears as recycling sites cut  (June 19, 2017)
Read Story
Photos shame Wirral’s hot weather litter louts  (June 19, 2017)
View Here
Schenectady residents irked by garbage and litter in neighborhoods  (June 18, 2017)
Read More
Pick Your But​ts Up – Keep Tyle Beautiful receives cigarette litter prevention grant  (June 17, 2017)
Cash Award
​Shame litter bugs for a cleaner Cork  (June 17, 2017)
Full Story
For Fish’s Sake campaign targets Thames litter  (June 17, 2017)
Doing Good
Anti-littering group evolves to revitalize social harmony and environment in Jordan  (June 16, 2017)
Read More
NZ marine litter to be tackled at source​  (June 16, 2017)
News Brief
American Chemistry Council responds to UN’s marine litter issue (June 16, 2017)
Industry View
Millions to combat litter. More money for a losing battle?  (June 16, 2017)
Commentary
Fiji Sun anti-litter campaign spurs youths to clear rubbish  (June 16, 2017)
Heartening
Pennsylvania bans plastic bag bans  (June 16, 2017)
Shocker
Jamaican PM says littering a cultural problem  (June 15, 2017)
From The Top
Cork Council seeks power to name and shame litter louts  (June 15, 2017)
On The Move
Litter, garbage protest demonstrations across Multan over unhygienic conditions  (June 15, 2017)
Full Story
Clean Nova Scotia's Pick Me Up program highlights province's litter problem  (June 15, 2017)
Editorial
EU addresses marine litter  (June 15, 2017)
Leadership
Encourages residents to stop littering  (June 15, 2017)
Letter
New state litter campaign – Nobody Trashes Tennessee  (June 14, 2017)
Full Story
Residents urged to get stuck in with the war on litter  (June 14, 2017)
Gum Problem
Aberdour activist and litter picker hailed a hero  (June 14, 2017)
Button Text
Cigarette butts keep littering the streets  (June 14, 2017)
Opinion
Litter louts ordered to pay out almost 8000 pounds  (June 14, 2017)
Name & Shame
Events on last day of conference address marine litter Arctic resilience initiative  (June 14, 2017)
Important
Space sweepers for space litter  (June 13, 2017)
Photo
Refugees trash the place: Littering in Germany  (June 13, 2017)
Viewpoint
Mixed bags of junk  (June 13, 2017)
See More
​Costa Rica expands protected seas and fosters efforts to fight marine pollution  (June 13, 2017)
Commitment
Sweden supports Clean Seas campaign to reduce marine litter  (June 13, 2017)
World News
Hunt’s nip litter bill heads to house committee  (June 13, 2017)
Battle Bottle
Gum litter campaign launched in Kilkenny  (June 13, 2017)
It's Working
​New Zealand announces a major new litter initiative  (June 12, 2017)
News Here
​Campaign to crack gum litter in Clare  (June 12, 2017)
Forward Move
Litter pickup by North Carolina prisoners poised for scrap heap  (June 12, 2017)
Ending Soon
​Littering, lax policing blamed for Bangkok flooding: poll  (June 12, 2017)
Read More
​Gum Litter campaign launched in Ennis  (June 12, 2017)
Hope It Sticks
​New Estover playpark already at the mercy of litter louts  (June 12, 2017)
View Here
$260,000 for nationwide litter review in New Zealand  (June 11, 2017)
Just In
On World Ocean Day 2018 ISWA announced a new marine litter task force  (June 11, 2017)
Full Story
Litter still posing a problem at Horseshoe Bay  (June 11, 2017)
On The Islands
New state anti-litter law can mean up to 60 hours of community service for convicted violators  (June 10, 2017)
Brand New
​More money to clean up after Staten Island litter slobs  (June 10, 2017)
Read More
Greenpeace: 96% of litter found in Mediterranean Sea is plastic  (June 10, 2017)
New Study
Lookout for Litter challenge, a summer scavenger hunt  (June 10, 2017)
Events
Hollywood heavyweights team with Sea Shepherd on World Oceans Day  (June 10, 2017)
Cool
​Bill combating nip litter set for June 13 hearing  (June 9, 2017)
Full Story
​VPs challenge on litter  (June 9, 2017)
Zimbabwe
​€23k to tackle graffiti and litter in Clare  (June8, 2017)
Ireland
​There wouldn’t be litter if people could wait, say Cornwall Central Public School students  (June 8, 2017)
Good Point
​Bertha Shaw students raise voices against littering  (June 8, 2017)
Story Here
​Ball field recycling and litter mitigation is covering all the bases  (June 8, 2017)
Read More
​Costa Rica expands protected seas and fosters efforts to fight marine pollution on World Oceans Day  (June 8, 2017)
Important
Nobody trashes Tennessee! TDOT launches new litter prevention campaign  (June 7, 2017)
New!
Prosecutions from Bexley littering crackdown bring in nearly £10,000  (June 7, 2017)
Story Here
Thanet litter cops can now issue fixed penalty fines for two more offences  (June 7, 2017)
Enforcing
​Mumbaiites: your bad habits are costing you (June 6, 2017)
Read More
OMG, Oh My Garbage 2017 short film competition   (June 6, 2017)
Details Here
​Town focuses to reduce littering  (June 6, 2017)
Good Move
The litter on the sets  (June 6, 2017)
Interesting
​South African road agency fights littering on Eastern Cape roads  (June 5, 2017)
Full Story
Tipp council efforts to tackle littering given boost  (June 5, 2017)
Ireland
Seagulls attack rubbish bins leaving litter strewn all over street at back of Subway  (June 4, 2017)
See This
Dublin’s gum litter awareness campaign aims to stick  (June 4, 2017)
Ongoing
Longford’s mall litter warden could be our eyes and ears  (June 4, 2017)
Hopeful Sign
​Parents concern over litter near playschool  (June 4, 2017)
Speaking Out
BMA launches canal anti-litter campaign to prevent flooding  (June 3, 2017)
Good Plan
Illegal littering problem continues to grow in spite of efforts at curtailing  (June 3, 2017)
Tennessee
€23,000 for litter, graffiti awareness  (June 3, 2017)
Story Here
Warning issued for littering at Rez  (June 3, 2017)
Red Flag
$1,025 fine for littering lit tobacco product  (June 3, 2017)
Tough Love
Sidewalk litter law gets initial nod  (June 3, 2017)
Stand Taken
Naughten tackles litter and graffiti with increased funding  (June 3, 2017)
Investing
Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup aims to reduce beach litter  (June 2, 2017)
Video
Garbage fees waived for litter  (June 2, 2017)
Read More
Louisiana lawmakers lessen litter fines, boost community service  (June 2, 2017)
Details Here
Concerns growing about McDonald’s litter in Blackburn  (June 2, 2017)
Controversy
PM Modi to usher World Environment Day with litter bins in over 4000 towns in India​  (June 1, 2017)
Good Move
'Jago Grahak Jago' and stop littering: Govt tells people​  (June 1, 2017)
India
Zimbabwe’s tourism minister Mzembi speaks on littering  (June 1, 2017)
Full Story
Cabinet approves draft law to bar littering in public spaces  (June 1, 2017)
In Qatar
Residents urged to pick up litter  (June 1, 2017)
Read More