Trash

I assume that before you build or buy a house you check some basic things: If it has water; if it's linked to the sewerage system; if your trash will be collected; if the road leading to the property is in good repair; if there is any kind of plan for how many houses can be built, how much traffic the area can handle and where someone can park; if basic medical care is available in the area in

Police in Crete have opened a murder inquiry after staff at a trash sorting plant in Hania found a human head in a plastic bag traveling down the conveyor belt.

The head was initially thought to belong to a woman, on account of its long black hair, though an expert later confirmed that it belongs to man in his 30s or 40s, possibly of Asian descent.

Beyond temperature, there are other good reasons not to burn our trash in volcanoes

An empty can, the base of a lamp and string: What sound like rubbish to some are music to the ears of a Turkish band that turns waste into instruments to promote recycling.

Fungistanbul, a trio that began experimenting with a sound they call "Trash Oriental" in 2019, have joined a growing global movement of groups that bang, strum and blow into things they find in dustbins.

A few years ago, a Sydney scientist noticed a sulfur-crested cockatoo opening his trash bin. Not every resident would be thrilled, but ornithologist Richard Major was impressed by the ingenuity.

It's quite a feat for a bird to grasp a bin lid with its beak, pry it open, then shuffle far enough along the bin's edge that the lid falls backward, revealing edible trash treasures inside.

Garbage and trash dotted a beach of the tourist hotspot province of Antalya on the Mediterranean coast as holiday-goers left the area opened for makeshift tents for the summer season.

A baby believed to be only a few days old was found abandoned in a semi-buried waste container in the southwestern city of Kalamata on Wednesday morning, and a 25-year-old Georgian woman, believed to be its mother, was arrested a few hours later.

As trash started to pile up on city streets over the weekend amid reactions from sanitation workers to plans privatize some garbage collections, the municipal authorities of Athens and Thessaloniki appealed to residents on Monday not to take out their trash on Tuesday and Wednesday at least.

A group of Egyptian volunteers clear up trash from the Poseidonia beach near Corinth Monday. [ANA-MPA]

Mass checks for separate garbage collection have begun in the capital.

The action is made by the Sofia Inspectorate and the fines are from BGN 50 to BGN 700.

Inspectors' inspections are surprising and started on May 27th. They are tracking  where and how people and companies throw away their trash.