Rubbish

Cigarette butts to be Britains 'most pervasive' litter problem

A common pub game could help eliminate UK's biggest litter problem

Fly-tipped rubbish and waste is seen beside a road in Colnbrook, near Heathrow, west of London on May 11 2020.

Watch: How do we dump Britain’s fly-tipping epidemic?

Rubbish piled up on Beach Road in Sparkhill Birmingham

Watch: Rubbish piles up in streets as bin strike enters third week

Dramatic pictures posted on Facebook posted by Watery Lane resident Elaine Hutchings show the scale of the fly tipping.

'Beyond belief': Outrage over 50ft long fly-tipped waste pile

Serife Mehmet, 30, said she has often wished to move away from the area due to the extent of the rubbish

Revolting rubbish and nightmare potholes are making my car filthy

The huge mountain of rubbish has built up at a property in Dalkeith Street

Disgusting mountain of rubbish attracting rats and plaguing street

Before-and-after pictures show how a house of horrors which was turned into a makeshift dump has finally been cleared of rubbish after more than a year.

Makeshift tip FINALLY cleared as nightmare neighbour evicted

Horrified residents are demanding action after their neighbours turned their home into a makeshift TIP with tonnes of rubbish dumped on the driveway.

Nightmare tenant with rubbish dump in front garden gets EVICTED

Horrified residents are demanding action after their neighbours turned their home into a makeshift TIP with tonnes of rubbish dumped on the driveway.

Next door has a rubbish dump in the garden...it's making our kids sick

Video grab from heartbreaking footage showing 'waterfalls' of 3,000 bits of rubbish including drinks cans and Santa hats left by people on Mount Snowdon.

'Waterfall' of rubbish cascades down Mt Snowdon in heartbreaking video

Bilk's Sol Abraham

Boardmasters 2024: Bilk’s Sol Abrahams reflects on Cornish experience

Clean Up Britain founder John Read wants more to be done about motorway litter

Rubbish dumped on motorway...what do we pay our council tax for?

Nino Gugliemi, 82, who has run a female hair salon on Wilmslow Road in Manchester for 60 years backs onto the alley ways of where students live and have dumped rubbish after moving out for the summer.

Watch: Fly-tipping students have turned street into a 'dumping ground'

Gas cannister exploded after being incorrectly thrown out with household rubbish

Watch: Gas cannister explodes and is sent flying at binman

Residents say the village of Featherstone is the 'grimmest' place in the UK and is surrounded by three prisons.

'We live in UK's grimmest village... it's worse than prison'

Joan Neininger & Ken Selway share a kiss at their wedding reception at Hannover Court, Cinderford, Gloucestershire.

‘Lady’ - who married ‘Tramp’ she found going through bins - dies
A woman dubbed a real-life ‘Lady’ after marrying her very own ‘Tramp’ she found going through her bins in the 1970s has passed away.
Sophie Wills

These pictures show the 'war zone' that greeted a family arriving for the first time at their historic Â£1.5m manor home - after the seller 'gutted' it before completion

Family devastated after new £1.5m home ‘gutted’ by seller be he left

Creepy morgue to be sold at auction with buyers warned to take ‘great care’ inspecting derelict property

Creepy morgue to be sold at auction with price starting at £55,000

See inside the £795k rundown mansion which comes with a health warning

Homeowners could be liable for £50k fine if your neighbour does ‘this’ to your property

Neighbours could land homeowners a £50k fine according to obscure law

The terraced house in Whitnash Grove, Coventry could easily be a smart family home but for one major snag the property has suffered from extensive fire damage inside

House labelled ‘Britain’s filthiest’ sells at auction for £175,000

Stacey Solomon shares cheap 25p cleaning hack for removing limescale

A look at the UK’s most neglected street compared to The Last Of Us

The Banksy mural in in Lowestoft, Suffolk, after the skip was removed

Removal of part of a Banksy work has now left the mural ‘worthless’

Masked Singer elimination: Piece of Cake’s reason for taking part

First News: Is Recycling a Load of Rubbish?

Santa: this fat old twister has cost everyone a fortune.

Joy to the world - Christmas and New Year are over!
“Eeeee! I’ll be glad when it’s all over.”
Tony Gillan

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