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Litter bugs to be hit by on the spot fines  (October 31, 2014)
The move is part of a huge litter crackdown organised by Manchester City Council in response to concerns from residents about the problem.
Crackdown
Littering is just as bad as anti-nationalism, celebrity author says re PM’s “Clean India” campaign  (October 31, 2014)
Read
Litter prize for fast-food spot  (October 31, 2014)
Scotland
Full Story
We are living in Dirtbin  (October 31, 2014)
A South African business owner is fed up with the smelly drains and litter in the road.
Letter
Eastern Illinois Student Senate prepares for cigarette littering law  (October 30, 2014)
Top Marks
Council head pleads not guilty  (October 30, 2014)
You Judge
Shops in two counties ban Halloween flour and eggs   (October 30, 2014)
Read More
MARLISCO National Fora in Turkey   (October 30, 2014)
Marine
Minimizing micro-trash in the wilderness  (October 29, 2014)
2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act. 
Wise Words
Mexico City struggles to promote recycling  (October 29, 2014)
Trash causes 50 percent of the floods in Mexico City, said the civil protection secretariat in posters plastered around the city, discouraging residents from littering.
Challenged
Zoning standards forbid dance hall parties at skating rink  (October 29, 2014)
"Thin Ice"
Pollution destroying Turkey's Lake Çubuk  (October 29, 2014)
Full Story
A Normal Day against littering!  (October 28, 2014)
Video
Surprise for people littering on roads  (October 28, 2014)
Read More
The bill was passed in Israel: Each plastic bag will cost 30 Agurot  (October 28, 2014)
Bag Fee
Our 'Butt It' message is getting through . . .   (October 27, 2014)
National Butt Free  Day in Australia happening tomorrow
Can-Do
'Bag it, bin it, we'll collect it': Jamaica  (October 27, 2014)
Trying
Pedestrian killed by falling brick  (October 27, 2014)
Tragedy
Forest crews battle litter at unofficial campgrounds  (October 26, 2014)
Full Story
Wheelie Bin men accused of littering  (October 25, 2014)
Letter
Police report - 10-25-14; A man reported being struck by a thrown object while he worked  (October 25, 2014)
Brief
Using litter bins could save taxpayers millions (Wandsworth Borough Council)  (October 25, 2014)
Story Here
Women prosecuted for separate waste and littering offences  (October 24, 2014)
Costly
Delhi citizens feel cleanliness campaign should be taken seriously  (October 24, 2014)
Read More
Police Blotter: Littering leads to more serious charges  (October 24, 2014)
Crime News
There's a job for those caught littering  (October 24, 2014)
Letters
Mass conviction at Gambia’s anti-littering court  (October 23, 2014)
In all the four judgments delivered by the magistrate, he emphasized the need for people to clean their environments, in line with the spirit and letters of section 8(1) of the Anti-littering Act of 2007.
Full Story
Poop patrols and fly-tipping tours to clean up Avenues in Hull  (October 23, 2014)
Councillors are using part of their local ward fund to pay for the clean-ups.
Read Here
Litter, fly tipping and Plastic Bags  (October 23, 2014)
Website
Town Centre litterbugs fined  (October 23, 2014)
Named
No more excuses to litter at Avarua school  (October 23, 2014)
Why Not?
Sculpture showcases trash  (October 23, 2014)
See It
Rising tide of litter on Singapore’s shorelines  (October 23, 2014)
Full Story
Houma dump truck driver arrested on 'gross littering' charges  (October 22, 2014)
Police Report
Filipino boxer “Boom-Boom” pays city fine  (October 22, 2014)
Pants Down
Mixed messages from Scottish public as plastic bags levy comes into force across the country  (October 22, 2014)
Story Here
Holroyd mayor: "steer clear of illegal dumping"  (October 21, 2014)
Mayor Greg Cummings said the council’s commitment to keeping Holroyd clean is complemented by the work of the Western Sydney Regional Illegal Dumping (RID) Squad, a joint initiative with the NSW Environmental Protection Authority and councils. 
Read More
Western Europe’s experience with refillable beverage containers: Reduce, Reuse, Refill!  (October 21, 2014)
Drink Up
Thousands join for cleaner Jakarta  (October 21, 2014)
Teamwork
The Packaging Forum sets out to be the new face of packaging with a strong focus on product stewardship  (October 20, 2014)
In New Zealand an annual national litter count which will provide baseline data enabling industry to work with Local Government and Communities on strategies to change behaviors and reduce littering. This data will provide a snapshot of litter in eight urban areas where 53 per cent of the population resides. This will help inform not just the packaging industry but other industry groups whose products are discarded in public places.
Progressive
Love Essex campaign leads to drop in litter  (October 20, 2014)
Done Well
Making Brunei litter-free  (October 20, 2014)
Letter
Our friends in West Virginia “REAP” benefits from state grants  (October 19, 2014)    
Conference
Omaha mayor has hotline mobile app for reporting illegal dumping and littering  (October 19, 2014)
Website
Action on litter brings 2,500 penalty notices  (October 19, 2014)
Welsh Magic
Marine, beach littering tops Sustainability Awards  (October 18, 2014)
Australia
Salem pioneers cigarette butt recycling program  (October 18, 2014)
The city already has the new receptacles and will place about 100 of them initially around the downtown, starting Thursday and Friday. Each container can hold about 700 cigarette butts.
Pioneers
Sandals employees conduct post-holiday coastal cleanup  (October 18, 2014)
Read More
There is more to it than meets the eye  (October 17, 2014)
Opinion
EuroCham: The voice of European business in Singapore  (October 17, 2014)
Update
Stereotyping Chinese as spitters is easy  (October 17, 2014)
Column
Carmarthenshire getting tough on littering  (October 16, 2014)
New Welsh Government statistics have shown an increase in the number of fixed penalty notices issued by Council for environmental crimes such as littering, smoking-related litter and dog fouling.
Read More
Students doing their part  (October 16, 2014)
MLA for Northside-Westmount initiates clean-up campaign, and school principal says it is very difficult to teach children not to litter when they see other people doing it. 
Initiative
Litter and trash on campus cause debate  (October 16, 2014)
Story Here
Calderdale smokers to avoid litter fine with cessation course  (October 15, 2014)
New Ground
National Community Grants Program in act keeping Australia beautiful  (October 15, 2014)
Press Release
Illegal dumping: Why do so many Canadians trash Canada?   (October 14, 2014)
Watch CBC National News coverage of the issue. Tune in Tuesday night for the follow-up by distinguished reporter, Havard Gould.
Hot Button
Blue Lagoon taxi chaos returns  (October 14, 2014)
Last year the long-distance taxi’s constant partying at Blue Lagoon also outraged uMgeni Park residents.
Problems
Senator Mark Udall’s “Trashed” Environmental Record  (October 14, 2014)
Long Ago
Stopped for littering, charged with impaired driving? In Wisconsin, that depends.  (October 14, 2014)
Odd Ruling
No butts about it, Australia (October 14, 2014)
Educating
Trash talk is OK, but don’t leave litter behind  (October 14, 2014)
Read More
Residents encouraged to 'clean-up' their act in push to stop litter  (October 14, 2014)
Story
Illegal dumping: Why do so many Canadians trash Canada?  (October 13, 2014)
Watch The National on CBC Television tonight, Canadians.  Take a look in the mirror. It’s not a pretty reflection.  Illegal dumping is a widespread practice in this country, writes CBC reporter Havard Gould.
Watch
Dangerous motorist gives himself away by littering  (October 13, 2014)
Gotcha!
Camping restrictions proposed for lochside  (October 13, 2014)
Read More
Fines for picking flowers, smoking indoors and littering in Kuwait  (October 13, 2014)
A new police force division also has been established to monitor the new rules.  The legislation was approved by the previous parliament and came into effect on Sunday.
New Rules
'It's time to get tough on those using our city as their personal litter bin'
Town hall boss slams fines for fly-tippers  (October 13, 2014)
Full Story
Clean up the country  (October 13, 2014)
Essay
Plastics Rubbish website offers October overview  (October 13, 2014)
Check It Out
Manatee County ranks as almost litter free thanks to clean-ups, education  (October 12, 2014) 
Full Story
There’s a type of littering prevalent at the moment that’s really annoying  (October 12, 2014)
Angry Man
How much did Illinois spend on misspelled No Littering signs?  (October 11, 2014)
Funny
Party marred by littering of streets  (October 11, 2014)
Waking up to their pavements and streets covered in beer bottles and cans was not what Bardene residents had in mind for starting the day on Sunday morning, October 5.
No Fun
Think green and keep Fresno County clean, urges council of governments  (October 11, 2014)
Goal
Northampton residents left with litter problem as council removes only bin  (October 11, 2014)
Story Here
Local sightseers inject new life into Pakistan idyll  (October 10, 2014)
Essay
Gumdrops launched in Glasgow's West End to collect used chewing gum  (October 10 2014)
Neat!
Dundee Kiltwalk apologizes for litter left in Broughty Ferry  (October 10, 2014)
Oops
Westwood High School Student Senate issues challenge to football fans  (October 10, 2014)
Smart
Audio: Jamaicans to pay dearly for littering, government promises substantial fines  (October 10, 2014)
Hear This
In response to controversial TV ad, agency says only 64 percent of residents have access to curbside recycling  (October 10, 2014)
Ad War
Container Recycling Institute: The environmental impacts of Big Soda  (October 10, 2014)
More Info
Video: How litter kills  (October 9, 2014)
by Red Bird Creative of Australia
Learn
Clean India Campaign: LONG OVERDUE REVOLUTION…  (October 9, 2014)
To bring about a behavioural change is at the centre of this campaign.  Clean India has become a national voluntary programme undertaken with an oath. It is no longer a symbolic gesture, but a time-bound action programme. 
Nationwide
NEA charges premier games for illegal littering  (October 9, 2014)
Singapore
Autauga County officials partner with Alabama to clean illegal dumpsites   (October 9, 2014)
Action Plus
Singapore's sewerage litter causes flooding in Jurong, AMK flats  (October 8, 2014)
Serious
Environmental Education for all Jamaican schools  (October 8, 2014)
Opinion
Warnings and fines to be issued to people who drop litter in a Northamptonshire town centre  (October 8, 2014)
Read More
New signage to ward off litterbugs  (October 7, 2014)
See Sign
Ads promote littering  (October 7, 2014)
Letter
No littering Crystal Beach  (October 7, 2014)
Take Note
Action plan for Swatchh Bharat mission shortly: Venkaiah Naidu  (October 7, 2014)
Plan to involve funding of basic sanitation using corporate social responsibility
Clean India
Use cardboard dumpsters with care  (October 7, 2014)
Boxed In
CleanSea team publishes paper on marine litter economics  (October 7, 2014)
Academic
Will city stop littering? Delhi University to study  (October 6, 2014)
The project will be launched in February next year.
Far Reaching
Mumbai: 692 caught spitting and littering at stations  (October 6, 2014)
"Clean India"
100,000 tons of garbage generated on Dameisha National Day  (October 6, 2014)
China
Public votes in favour of spitting fines  (October 5, 2014)
Read More
Travellers sidestep council deterrent and set up illegal camp on Cannon Hill Common  (October 5, 2014)
Story Here
Westwood High students to battle litter  (October 4, 2014)
Bang On!
Cleveland Browns tailgating: Rules for the municipal lot  (October 4, 2014)
Rulebook
Residents are disturbed about oil-related stickers littering Hermosa  (October 4, 2014)
Will be hanging on to any anti-oil flyers and stickers that are left on their property, which will then be turned over or photographed and given to the police as evidence of harassment.
Full Story
Littering on the playground needs to stop; no one likes it  (October 4, 2014)
From A Child
Clean India campaign: PM Modi can only initiate, the onus is on all us  (October 3, 2014)
Editorial
Residents encouraged to clean up their act  (October 3, 2014)
Nudging
Marbella residents furious at plague of sex cards littering their cars  (October 3, 2014)
Outcry
China’s Summer Palace garbage on ground has a three-minute limit  (October 3, 2014)
Story told in broken English gives a picture of park’s extraordinary cleanliness efforts. 
Read More
Task team to assess squalid nurses’ home  (October 3, 2014)
EASTERN Cape Health MEC Pumza Dyantyi is sending a task team to the nurses’ home at Port Elizabeth’s Provincial Hospital to assess the state of the residence and the impact of littering by students.
Rats
Lone selectman challenges 'litter bylaw,' rest of board supports fine increase  (October 3, 2014)
To view the Middleboro bylaw, titled "ARTICLE 8 — LITTER", visit here.
Done Deal
Text of India’s cleanliness pledge  (October 2, 2014)
The following is the pledge Prime Minister Narendra Modi read out to mark the start of Clean India campaign today.
Read & Heed
No graffiti, no alcohol: Why Hong Kong protesters are keeping order amongst the chaos  (October 2, 2014)
Full Story
Dubbo City Council backs litter fine increases  (October 2, 2014)
Down Under
Boxes littering major route add to rush hour delays  (October 2, 2014)
Hazard
If you’re a litter bug, it will cost you $250 in Mobile  (October 2, 2014)
For more information about the litter ordinance click here.
Good Push
New motor vehicle laws now in effect in Maryland  (October 2, 2014)
Read More
Indian Prime Minister to administer cleanliness pledge tomorrow in New Delhi  (October 1, 2014)
“I will remain committed towards cleanliness and devote time for this... I will neither litter nor let others litter.”  This is the salient point of the pledge that Narendra Modi will administer to the countrymen on Thursday, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, while highlighting the Father of the Nation’s thrust on cleanliness.
5-Year Plan
Telstra phone company’s hermit crab advert under fire in Australia for ‘celebrating littering and consumerism’  (October 1, 2014)
Bang On!
Governor Jerry Brown signs landmark plastic bag ban  (October 1, 2014)
California approves first statewide ban on single-use plastic bags
Historic
Berbice Shines holds climate march in New Amsterdam  (September 30, 2014)
The Global Youth Movement Guyana, Berbice Shines, held a People’s Climate March for Global Day of Action in New Amsterdam last weekend. The day of action is observed annually and globally in September.
On The Move
Workers litter so Minister can clean up  (October 1, 2014)
Photo Op
Charles Sturt University and Bathurst Regional Council launch an anti-littering campaign  (October 1, 2014)
The project will run until the end of June 2015.
Full Story
St. John’s seeking more authority to penalize littering property owners  (October 1, 2014)
Canada
Parle Products snack manufacturer launches the Litter Free campaign  (October 1, 2014)
India