#Gravitas Japan has clinched the 2025 trash-picking sports world cup. A sport that mixes competitiveness with sustainability. 

Japan Wins the 2025 Trash-picking World Cup 

World, trending | Birmingham, UK's second city, is filled with approximately 17,000 tonnes of trash as workers announced 'bin strike' last month.  What is 'bin strike'

Birmingham is filled with trash: what is 'bin strike', why is it happening

A video from Disneyland in Hong Kong has captured the hearts of netizens. The clip showing a moving dustbin that is asking people around to feed it trash inside the theme park has gone viral on social media.

Hong Kong Disneyland’s moving garbage bin leaves netizens awestruck: Watch

On the towering peaks in Nepal an innovative solution is set to transform the way we tackle one of the world’s most daunting challenges; high-altitude garbage collection.

Drones to help pick up the heaps of trash on Everest

Green campaigners in a diving resort in the Philippines have come up with a novel way to clean up the town's shores - offering to swap a bag of rice for every sack of trash gathered by local residents

Philippine Resort's Innovative Rice-For-Trash Initiative

Green campaigners in a diving resort in the Philippines have come up with a novel way to clean up the town's shores - offering to swap a bag of rice for every sack of trash gathered by local residents.

Philippine town swaps trash for rice to clean up its beaches

North Korea faced a rare failure in the ballistic missile test on Wednesday (June 26), as per South Korea’s military. The test was carried out days after North Korea protested against the US aircraft carrier's regional deployment which was placed for a trilateral military drill with South Korea and Japan.

North Korea faces rare missile test failure amid war of trash balloons with South Korea

In the relations between the two Koreas -terms like mud-slinging and murky politics have taken on a whole new meaning. South Korea says - the North Korean regime is sending balloons containing rubbish and excrement to the south.

Gravitas: North Korea sends trash and excrement to South Korea

In Nigeria, “wastepreneurs” are providing an answer to this by taking waste straight from the dump, transforming it and redefining its purpose.

Nigerian parents pay school bills with recyclable waste

El Salvador's largest freshwater lake, Suchitlan is filled with trash. Govt slashed its budget for the lake’s clean-up campaign. A sea of plastic bottles and tin cans filled the key drinking water source. Local volunteers try to clean up at their best.

El Salvador's biggest lake, Suchitlan, swamped by trash

IN PICS | Senegal's 'Plastic Man' hopes to raise awareness against plastic pollution

One can never truly understand fashion and the price tag which comes it with. And luxury fashion company Balenciaga is no stranger to charging exorbitant prices on accessories, whose cheaper alternatives are already available in the market.

Netizens trash talk Balenciaga’s most expensive trash bag worth $1,790

In the search for some form of microbial life on planet Mars, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover found human trash on the surface of the planet. During one of its scheduled inspections of the planet, the Mars rover spotted landing debris caught in a jagged rock.

NASA's Mars Rover spots 'human trash' on Mars

They appear at nightfall, dragging heavy carts from dustbin to dustbin in the affluent northern suburbs of the Colombian capital Bogota. Informal recyclers, they rifle through the trash of the rich looking for waste plastic, glass bottles and cardboard they can sell for a handful of pesos.

In Bogota, trash of the rich becomes lifeline for the poor

Humankind produces enough trash for it to be a problem for the entire planet. Sure we have methods to segregate waste and treat it according to its type to decide whether it should be recycled, reused or else.

Will work for food: Company trains crows to pick up trash from streets

Fungistanbul, a Turkish band is building a music movement from the trash. The band is raising environmental awareness through live concerts.

Trash Music: A Turkish band is building a music movement from trash

Coastal species have now found a new artificial habitat in ocean plastic, reveals a new study published in the journal Nature Communications. As per researchers, there is a massive possibility that these species may be evolving to adapt to life on plastic.

Coastal species are now thriving by colonising on plastic trash in ocean

A librarian in Indonesia's Java island is lending books to children in exchange for the trash they collect in order to get them to learn more. WION tells you more.

Library allows children to exchange trash for books in Indonesia

In Gaelic, “Glasgow” translates to “dear green place,” a nod to the parks, gardens and flourishing green spaces throughout the city. But according to Chris Mitchell, who was a garbage collector there for more than two decades, the only thing flourishing in Glasgow these days is “a mountain of waste.

Outside climate summit, trash in Glasgow piles high

The Jellyfishbot flickered a yellow glow amongst white boats docked at a southern French port, as the robotic sea-cleaning boat gobbled up plastic bags, discarded drinks bottles, and even used surgical masks floating on the water. At the port of the French city of Cassis, the remote-controlled electric powered boat weaves around the harbour sucking the trash into a net that it trails behind its hulls.

Meet Jellyfishbot, the robot that eats trash on the sea

Each morning, a group of Filipinos rakes up piles of trash on the banks of one of the world's most polluted rivers, filling sacks in an endless pursuit to clean a waterway that is also a major source of ocean plastics.

Philippine 'river warriors' fight tide of trash for cleaner future

Amid the global coronavirus pandemic, more and more protective equipment is ending up in the sea, a French clean-up group warned on Tuesday (June 9).

Discarded PPE in seas a 'new type of pollution', French cleanup group says

"With great power comes great responsibility": a proverb popularised by the fictional superhero character Peter Parker who doubles as Spider-Man, takes on a twist in Indonesia by a 36-year-old citizen who is harnessing its "power" to encourage his countrymen to take responsibility for his city's problem with waste.

With great power comes great responsibility: Indonesian 'Spiderman' clears rubbish

One of the world's favourite holiday destinations Bali makes a clean-up move. Bali proposed a tax of up to 10 dollars on visitors to remove tourism-generated trash.

Bali thinking of taxing all foreign tourists

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