Bin bandit spends 90 minutes hiding among rubbish before jumping out to a rob a resident as he took out his garbage Resident was ambushed when the thief burst from the bin demanding cash He spent 90 minutes waiting inside to pounce when rubbish was taken out Fight ensued where the resident suffered a wound … Read more
Thoughtless drivers are putting lives and wildlife in danger and blighting the countryside by discarding tons of rubbish. To cope with the tsunami of trash, special teams from Highways England risk their lives collecting thousands of bags of litter from roadsides. Now the agency – which looks after the nation’s motorways and A-roads and carries … Read more
A ‘tidal wave’ of fly-tipping has engulfed England after the environmental menace soared almost 20 per cent in a decade. The number of reported rubbish dumping incidents across streets, parks and the countryside now stands at nearly 1million a year. The fly-tipping blight has left cities, towns and villages coping with items like discarded fridges, … Read more
Furious Parisians have turned on their Socialist mayor with a Twitter campaign where they are accusing her of gross mismanagement which as left Paris looking like a ‘rubbish dump’. Thousands of pictures have emerged on social media in the past few days of piles of rubbish filling the streets of the historic city under the … Read more
Police are left stunned after pulling over dangerously overloaded pick-up truck piled high with rubbish and scrap metal held together with three pieces of rope The pick-up truck was dangerously overloaded with a giant pile of rubbish Haul on the Mitsubishi L200 Trojan included scrap metal and household waste But the precarious load was only … Read more
Fly-tippers caught dumping rubbish on M6 motorway are escorted five miles back to waste by police and forced to pick it up Fly-tippers dumped piles of rubbish next to an emergency refuse bay on the M6 Police pursued the car after Highways England caught them fly-tipping on CCTV Officers stopped three men in Staffordshire and … Read more
Royal correspondents have rubbished Harry and Meghan’s claims that suggest they are facing a media conspiracy and the royal family has ‘invisible contracts’ with the press. The couple made a number of claims about the British tabloid media in their bombshell interview aired last night in the US. Prince Harry told Oprah Winfrey that the … Read more
‘Barmy’ Wrexham council is slammed for refusing to replace missing litter bins because they ‘attract rubbish’ In counterintuitive move a North Wales council has removed bins to reduce litter Wrexham council branded ‘barmy’ by one critic after claiming ‘bins attract litter’ Council’s environmental chief said people are more likely to fly-tip near bins By Milly Vincent … Read more
‘Litter can actually benefit rivers’: Scientists find more insects and snails living on RUBBISH than on rocks in three UK waterways – and say garbage can provide stable habitats for animals Researchers collected samples of rocks and litter from three local rivers The litter was inhabited by more diverse invertebrates than those on rocks In … Read more
‘Rubbish season’ is underway in Bali as plastic covers the country’s beaches in what is now becoming an annual event attributed to ocean pollution and monsoons. The tourist beaches of Kuta, Legian and Seminyak are among those being flooded with up to 60 tonnes of plastic rubbish every day. The problem at its worst from December to … Read more