Three wetsuited surfers bobbed over swells rolling in on the ocean Saturday morning near Pat Snyder, who leaned down to grab another plastic wrapper from the beach and drop it into his bulging trash bag. Snyder, 24, is a hard-core surfer, and he admitted that he liked the looks of

A fire broke out at Akram Tower at Bijoynagar in the city Monday afternoon, police said. Firefighters said the fire that burnt down furniture and wooden wall fittings originated from a discarded cigarette butt while carpenters were at work on the 13th floor of the 16-storied building in the afternoon.

Although my friends assure me that I am a natural-born reactionary, somewhat to the Right of Silvio Berlusconi, there are certain populist issues that entirely fail to stir my blood. I cannot, for instance, summon up one ounce of sympathy when self-righteous citizens complain of having been fined thousands of

A SMOKER has been fined more than £300 for flicking a lit cigarette end from his car. News - Smoking, genericRabnawaz Khan, of Lansdowne Terrace, Burton, was handed a fixed penalty notice in August last year after he was spotted throwing the butt out of his car window by an

SUNSHINE Coast council’s environment portfolio chief Keryn Jones said butt-flicking motorists remained the worst contributors to litter. Ms Jones was speaking before the Sunshine Coast groups launch an all-out assault on rubbish as part of Clean-Up Australia Day on Sunday. “I am sick and tired of watching people flick butts

It's the number one thing people throw away in the U.S. Now the city of Rochester is working to put cigarette butts in their real place. Every one of them has 4,000 chemicals, but work is underway to clean them up. "It all adds up and I'd rather people not

The City of Tallahassee announced a wide-ranging program designed to address a longstanding community problem – litter. Despite the efforts of City crews, community volunteers and organizations such as Keep Tallahassee Leon County Beautiful, litter continues to create an image of disorder and lack of caring in our area. To

“Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.” - Mason Cooley The average American produces more than four pounds of trash every day from packaging and envelopes to plastic silverware and Styrofoam plates, and apparently a lot of those people in our area drop that trash on the highway

Trash talk in Sneads Ferry is getting serious attention and I, for one, think it’s about time we begin cleaning up our act. Now lest anyone think I’m advocating some sort of prohibition on juvenile banter with the hope of picking a fight, he would be wrong. I’m merely echoing

A fire in a storage room at Chason Ridge apartments Tuesday morning displaced one family and caused about $10,000 in damage.