littering

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Owen Derbyshire, chief executive of Keep Wales Tidy, said the data seen by his team showed a "significant and quite dramatic uptick" in littering on Welsh streets.

From BBC • May 18, 2026

In some tourist-heavy areas, littering is on the rise, leading some local officials to rethink waste management.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 1, 2026

Johnson points to the irony of murals dedicated to legendary punk bands the Descendents and Black Flag littering the now-expensive Hermosa Beach.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2026

Residents of the Ashrafiyeh neighbourhood, the first of two areas to fall to the Syrian army, began returning to their homes to inspect the damage, finding shrapnel and broken glass littering the streets.

From Barron's • Jan. 11, 2026

He told me he’d had a similar reaction the first time he’d seen kernels littering Iowa roads in October.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan