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A new study published in the Marine Pollution Bulletin has found that octopuses are increasingly interacting with plastic and other waste materials in the water...

A Swedish company, Corvid Cleaning, is recruiting crows that will help clean the streets of Södertälje by picking out cigarette butts. Wild crows will be trained and rewarded with food for cleaning the city. The cigarette...

Single-use food and beverage container waste found on Canadian coasts almost doubled during the peak of COVID-19. This is according to the 2020 "Dirty Dozen" report prepared by the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup. About...

Thunderstorms, snow, 117°F temperatures and even ash falling from the sky couldn’t keep Edgar McGregor from his mission: cleaning up Eaton Canyon. The 20-year-old man, who self-identifies as autistic, shows how a plan...

In May, the French nonprofit Opération Mer Propre reported collecting several used face masks within waves of the Mediterranean Sea. According to the organization's report, there has been a surge in "COVID waste", including...

Our new normal, the novel coronavirus pandemic, has caused society to take up more rigorous hygiene regimens. Unfortunately, personal protective equipment like masks and gloves quickly become contaminated, and they shouldn't...

In the frenzy to ban plastic utensils, foam containers, straws and single-use bags, the world’s No. 1 most-littered item has been mostly ignored: cigarette butts. Perhaps because they are small in size, two out of every...

The EU adopted new plans last week to ban single-use plastic items like plates, straws, cutlery, balloon sticks and cotton buds — which make up over 70 percent of marine litter — by 2021...

While tourists flock from all corners of the globe to witness the Yellowstone National Park geysers such as famous Old Faithful, it is a small and relatively-unknown geyser catching international attention this time around...

Many theme-park visitors in the U.S. are familiar with using bottles or cans of soda they've purchased to score a discounted entry to their favorite attractions. Now, the U.K. is joining in with "reverse vending machines"...

Plogging is a fitness trend that will help get you - and the environment - in shape. Scandinavians dreamed up this environmentally friendly form of exercise that blends jogging and picking up trash - and it's taking off around...

There's still a lot the average person doesn't know about the trash clogging up our oceans. Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) scientists are tackling this public awareness crisis with LITTERBASE, a tool that makes it easy for...

A deluge of garbage is overwhelming Hong Kong beaches. In what some refer to as a trash 'tsunami,' Hong Kong beaches have seen an estimated six to 10 times the usual amount of trash recently. And most of that garbage is plastic...

pic Sea turtles living off the coast of Australia face a growing danger in their own habitat: ocean plastic. The amount of plastic debris in the waters surrounding Australia is growing rapidly and so are the unprecedented...

Did you know that over 80 BILLION pairs of disposable chopsticks were thrown out worldwide last year? It might seem inconsequential to toss out that used pair of bamboo or wooden sticks after you've finished hoovering your...