Important! Litter Behaviour Research Findings
A groundbreaking report in Canada for Divert Nova Scotia
Download your copy of this March 2022 landmark work.
Resources and Links:
"The Litter Myth" NPR Podcast, Sept. 5, 2019
"ONTARIO'S LITTER PROBLEM: IN WHOSE HANDS DOES IT REST?" (February 19, 2015)
For 2014 this second report identifies key issues going forward and continues to press for action.
For 2014 this second report identifies key issues going forward and continues to press for action.
| lpp_progress_2.pdf |
"LITTER CONTROL IN ONTARIO: NO TIME TO WASTE" (November 22, 2013)
Our first annual Progress Report receives media attention across Canada, from St. John's to Vancouver.
| lpp_progress_report.pdf |
Smart smokers should read this . . .
Smoking – how bad is it really? (April 8, 2019)
Smoking and the Environment: How Cigarette Butts Pollute The Environment
Thank you, 4-H group, for sharing this blog with us!
|
The best documentary film on chewing gum ever made
Sheila White and Litter Prevention Program played a role in it Canadian beverage industry roars ahead with recycling success in Manitoba and $4.6 million funding commitment
(August 11, 2013) Industry campaign boosts recycling by 25 per cent in two years and lowers littering, evidence suggests. Exciting results in 2012 from the Canadian Beverage Container Recycling Association, which is using the momentum to drive a culture of total recycling. Visit the CBRCA website to track the success of Recycle Everywhere. |
BE YOUR OWN HERO. PLEDGE TO NOT LITTER THIS YEAR
Signing our Litter Not Pledge is the greatest single action you can take to help the environment, year in, year out, and from this day forward. Read "This Week In Litterland". Great stuff in there every week.
SOMETHING FUNNY ABOUT BUTT LITTER
This well-crafted butt litter video comes from Australia, October 2012. Highly recommended and quite funny. Click here to watch it. |
Canadian Plastics Industry Association's litter prevention activity book and new game now online for kids. Download here.
JUST RELEASED! (June 28, 2013)
Keep Britain Tidy reports on the extreme costs of litter, sounds alarm in 2013
Asks, "Which side of the fence are you on"?
GREAT! Everything you need to know about plastic litter can be found on this excellent website from Dr. Ross Headifen in Australia. Plastic is not a natural product therefore nature has no way to break it down, other than hundreds to thousands of years of time. More plastic was manufactured in the last 10 years than all of last century. Go to www.plasticwastesolutions.com and become informed.
OUTSTANDING!! Ireland launches lively and creative three-year "Bin It Your Way" program about chewing gum litter (November 30, 2012)
REPORT FROM VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA'S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (October 16, 2015)
|
Wm Wrigley Jr. Company Foundation Expands “Litter Less” Program in Ireland
Partnering with the National Trust for Ireland, the program's rolling out to 50 more schools and up to 35,000 students over the next two years. Its aim is to encourage teenagers to understand and take action with their peers to reduce littering at school and particularly, outside the school. (January 11, 2013) “Love Food, Hate Waste”
Scotland’s recipe for making The Big Lunch that leaves no waste behind. A great resource. |
#Litterati Our friend, Jeff Kirschner is making a global impression with his interactive social experiment via Instagram
INNOVATION! Bolivian Recycled Homes Made of Litter (February 10, 2013)
Litter Videos from YouTube
Any one of these is enough to cure you of the littering habit.
Any one of these is enough to cure you of the littering habit.
The Beverage Containers Bill 2012, Trinidad and Tobago Senate
Let's Do It! World cleanups began in Estonia and spread around the world (October 17, 2012)
Litter Websites from Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Victoria, Australia (October 2012)
Gum Litter Task Force, Ireland (October 2012)
"Mumbai's Most Unwanted" Student Campaign (launched September 13, 2012, find the full story on Newsreel)
Europes's Response to Marine Litter (September 2012)
New Tool Kit for UK Schools: Jurassic Coast Marine and Beach Litter Project for Schools (October 2012)
This education pack has been written to help every school to teach their children and young people about the local and global impacts of marine and beach litter. It includes some lesson plans and activity suggestions that can be used to help learning in your school. Click button below.
This education pack has been written to help every school to teach their children and young people about the local and global impacts of marine and beach litter. It includes some lesson plans and activity suggestions that can be used to help learning in your school. Click button below.
United Kingdom's Litter Action Groups: litteraction.org.uk & cleanupbritain.org (September 2012)
Litter Management Plan for 2012 to 2015: Fingal County, Ireland (October 1, 2012)
We put this in our ‘best-ever’ category for its attention to every detail as a litter prevention plan. The public has until Oct. 30, 2012 to comment.
We put this in our ‘best-ever’ category for its attention to every detail as a litter prevention plan. The public has until Oct. 30, 2012 to comment.
How It’s Done In Craigavon, Ireland (June 3, 2013)
More from Ireland ... and Scotland and Wales
|
Recycling Laws and Campaigns in the United States
An excellent resource from the American non-profit, Campaign For Recycling: www.campaignforrecycling.org Taking a bite out of litter:
Organizing a California Cleanup event (April 20, 2013) |
Californians Against Waste |
|
USA's 1 800 recycling.com, the recycling search engine
REAP, Rehabilitation Environmental Action Plan, West Virginia
Strives rid the state of unsightly litter. Vault of Litter News Stories
Don't Trash Arizona
Maryland's Alice Ferguson Foundation |
Online Volunteer Network Launched to Address Pervasive Trash Problem in the Potomac Region (Sept. 15, 2012)
eCycling Zip Code Locator for USA
Keep Arkansas Beautiful
One innovative Green Team project is the BUTTanical Garden. Click Video button for a 'must-see' experience and a great idea. US Environmental Protection Agency |
National Environment Agency (Singapore) (September, 2012)
|
Litter News from Africa
|
NEPAD Water Centres of Excellence are Africa's centres of research which meet the requirements for a centre as described in the NEPAD Water initiative guide and includes all the higher education institutions and/or science councils that participate in The NEPAD Water Initiative.
Visit www.nepadwatercoe.org. |
CANADA
Canadian Beverage Container Recycling Association deserves a hand
Industry-funded not-for-profit works with Manitoba government toward total recycling and is doing a great job. Gold standard.
Industry-funded not-for-profit works with Manitoba government toward total recycling and is doing a great job. Gold standard.
Edmonton, Alberta looking good
City of Toronto 2012 Litter Audit - the first in four years - reveals the good, the bad and the ugly.
City of Hamilton aiming to get ahead of the curve in Ontario with committed Clean&Green plan (November 29, 2012)
Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation (OSSTF/FEESO) Report 2012 "Small Steps to a Greener Union"
St. John's, Newfoundland Anti-Litter By-law
Marine Debris and Marine Protection Agencies: Managing the Impacts of Litter on Marine Ecosystems (December 2011)
An excellent newsletter. Highly recommended.
MPA News is published bimonthly by Marine Affairs Research and Education, a not-for-profit corporation, in association with the School of Marine & Environmental Affairs, University of Washington.
An excellent newsletter. Highly recommended.
MPA News is published bimonthly by Marine Affairs Research and Education, a not-for-profit corporation, in association with the School of Marine & Environmental Affairs, University of Washington.
Marine Litter News in English, Spanish and German (November 30, 2012)
In-depth coverage of issues affecting Earth's oceans and waters
In-depth coverage of issues affecting Earth's oceans and waters
View a copy of the litter prevention program from New South Wales, Australia:
In June 2010 the National Environment Agency (NEA) launched a new initiative to better curb littering in Singapore
Litter in America: 2009 National Litter Research Findings and Recommendations
Final Report: Cigarette Butt Litter Reduction Program, San Mateo County, USA (2008-2009)
Citizens Against Litter (Pittsburgh, founded in 2005)
Australia's Branded Litter Study 2007/2008 Results
List of Companies Involved in Litter Control.
Litter control costs money. Litter prevention saves money.
Litter control costs money. Litter prevention saves money.