Waste container

With the increase in temperatures during the summer, more people in Istanbul are spending time in open areas and leaving their rubbish behind, resulting in a significant environmental issue for the city, local media has reported.

According to reports, during the scorching hot days in Istanbul, most residents flock to green areas and leave without picking up after themselves.

The City of Light is losing its luster with tons of garbage piling up on Paris sidewalks as sanitation workers were on strike for a ninth day Tuesday. The creeping squalor is the most visible sign of widespread anger over a bill to raise the French retirement age by two years.

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.

Special offers on food items have led to an increase in the amount of waste produced by households as consumers purchase more than what they need, according to research conducted by the Agriculture Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

More specifically, 72% of consumers buy more food than necessary as they are lured by offers.

Garbage collectors in Istanbul's Şişli district were deeply shocked when they heard a baby crying in the hopper of the truck on Feb. 20.

Police in Athens on Monday were searching the capital's main landfill in Fyli for the remains of a 52-year-old man after a 21-year-old confessed to murdering him, cutting up his body and disposing of it in the trash.

The 21-year-old man reportedly confessed on Saturday to stabbing his 52-year-old godfather to death in his sleep because the older man used to beat his mother.

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.

Police say a baby, believed to be only a few days old, was found abandoned in a dumpster in the southewestern city of Kalamata on Wednesday morning.
Reports said the baby, which was placed inside a paper bag, was found around 6.40 a.m. by a woman who heard crying as she was about to throw garbage into the trash container. The woman immediately called the police.

Indonesia returns 547 garbage containers to the west after finding plastic and hazardous materials in it, the Associated Press reported.

Customs spokesman Heru Pambudi said nine containers containing 135 tonnes of waste were already shipped back to Australia.

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.