Garbage

Paris has been warned of a potential rat invasion amid the garbage collector strike which has seen tonnes of trash pile up on the streets.

Democrat-run New York City is now so rat-infested that citizens and businesses will no longer be allowed to take the trash out to the street until after 8:00 p.m.

A man was crushed to death by a trash compactor after climbing into the garbage chute in a Brooklyn apartment building. 

Illegal Chinese fishing boats are responsible for the majority of man-made ocean waste found near or in the Galapagos Islands Marine Preserve, which is located off Ecuador’s Pacific coast, the Latin American news site Infobae reported on Monday.

An advisor to President Emmanuel Macron has announced that he will be moving out of Paris due to the city becoming an open “trash can”.

Trash is piling up in areas around New York City as approximately 17 percent of sanitation workers refused to be vaccinated after mandates took effect on Monday.

The rock band Garbage has apologized to its Mexican fans for celebrating Cinco de Mayo after numerous people on Twitter pointed out that May 5 isn’t a major holiday in Mexico.

Paris’s city government has criticised a “smear campaign” after a hashtag spread among French social media users showed pictures of the capital with garbage piled up on the streets.

The number of young, single Tokyo residents requesting professional cleaning services for their apartments has skyrocketed over the past year due to a pandemic phenomenon known as “garbage houses,” in which people allow trash to accumulate inside their homes for months.

A 34-year-old New York City woman was discovered dead in a Staten Island apartment’s garbage chute, police said.

A four-year-old girl got to experience her own trash bash for her birthday thanks to the kindness of a few sanitation workers.

A car wash employee in Greenville, North Carolina, discovered a $1,200 stimulus check in the trash and made sure it was returned to its intended recipient.

Malaysian Environment Minister Yeo Bee Yin announced Tuesday the country would return 400 tons of garbage, most of it contaminated plastic, to its home countries, following adamant demands (and a threat of war) from Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte for Canada to take back its trash in Manila.

This comes just weeks after an NBC 4 report about an “infestation in Los Angeles City Hall of rats and fleas linked to typhus disease.”

The government of Canada offered the Philippines a deal on Thursday to accept over 100 containers full of household trash after illegally sending them to the Asian country in 2013. President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to go to war with Canada last week if they did not accept the garbage.

A spokesperson for Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday played down an apparent declaration of war against Canada, arguing that it was merely a “figure of speech.”

Starving Venezuelans fleeing across the border to Brazil have become a common sight around the dumpsters of the country’s biggest border cities, sending their children to find edible garbage to survive. The images, mirroring the reality in their home country, have triggered a backlash among the local population, Brazilian outlet Globo reported on Wednesday.

President Donald Trump again hit the ongoing Russia investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, calling it a “pile of garbage.”

KIBBUTZ ZEELIM, Israel — Hawks, vultures and storks circle overhead as Christopher Sveen points at the heap of refuse rotting in the desert heat. “This is the mine of the future,” he beams.

CARACAS, Venezuela – Driving through the streets of Caracas, it is impossible not to notice the ubiquitous government propaganda on the sides of buildings and scores of armed police. Even harder to avoid, however, is the garbage. On almost every street

Officials in one Texas city went silent over allegations of secrecy and cronyism in a questionable closed-door garbage collection deal. The deal overcharged local businesses for years and the city fizzled on its promises to look into the matter for its taxpayers.

Federal officials hauled away more than 800 dumpsters full of garbage at the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) protest campsites situated on federally-owned land in North Dakota.

Ted Cruz declared Monday that he has always been faithful to wife Heidi Cruz, following an accusatory report by gossip magazine National Enquirer that the Texas senator had five mistresses.

A Sierra Leonean journalist is confirming that presidential advisor Alhaji Kargbo independently signed an agreement to take in potentially hundreds of thousands of tons of garbage from Lebanon, currently struggling to meet its people’s waste management needs.

Female rocker Shirley Manson took to her Facebook page on Monday to go after rapper Kanye West for dismissing Beck as an artist, describing him as “small and petty,” among other things.