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Watch: drive-through recycling in Beirut

Festering landfills often overflow in crisis-hit Lebanon, waste is burnt illegally at informal dump sites and rubbish floats off the coast in the Mediterranean Sea.

03/07/2023

France

Rubbish to be cleared from Paris after strike suspended

A three-week-long rubbish collection strike in Paris has been suspended. The announcement from the CGT trade union came after the number of workers following the strike call dwindled.

28/03/2023

France

Did Paris requisition military to clean up the piles of trash?

In Paris, as piles of garbage been rising so does fake news around the strike against the pension reform.

22/03/2023

Green News

See why trash for breakfast is so damaging for Spain's storks

Madrid's landfill sites are a fatal pit stop for some white storks, which nest in the city rather than migrating to Africa.

10/02/2023

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An American activist has been carrying his rubbish for a month.

Rob Greenfield is proudly wearing rubbish, as part of a project to show how much rubbish we mindlessly throw away each month.

19/05/2022

Nature

Shrimp-like creatures are sailing to new continents on plastic waste

A new study of the world's biggest plastic gyre has found coastal species living miles out from home on the open ocean.

07/12/2021

Green News

Cocaine is being hidden in plastic waste, claims new investigation

A new report reveals how illicit flows and organised crime groups are worsening the world's 'heartbreaking' plastic waste problem.

15/11/2021

France

Newborn baby girl found alive in garbage bag near Lyon

An infant child was found alive in a garbage bag by passers-by near the French city of Lyon.

28/07/2021

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Islands of floating waste clog river in Bosnia

Islands of waste have formed on a major river in Bosnia, causing an environmental emergency and threatening a regional hydropower plant.

06/01/2021

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Wave of rubbish washes up on normally pristine Honduras beach

Volunteers worked to clean up after a wave of rubbish hit Honduras’ Caribbean coast

23/09/2020

World

Striking workers affect rubbish collection across French capital

There's a foul smell spreading across the French capital, with garbage piling up across the city. The strikes which have brought much of France to a halt in recent months, are starting to affect rubbish collection.

06/02/2020

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Hungry polar bear seen hunting for food in city far south of habitat

Climate change has been damaging polar bears' sea-ice habitats and forced them to scavenge more for food on land, bringing them into contact with people and inhabited areas.

19/06/2019

World News

EU throws away more rubbish for the fourth year in a row: report

The amount of rubbish generated per person in the EU has been gradually increasing in recent years despite the Commission's war on waste, according to a Eurostat study.

23/01/2019

Russia

Russian pianist performs on garbage

Russian pianist performs on garbage to raise awareness.

30/09/2018

World News

World Cleanup Day 2018: The largest waste collection day in history

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14/09/2018