Swedish Startup Trains Crow to Pick Up Litter in Exchange for Food
Corvid Cleaning, a Swedish startup specializing in training crows to pick up litter in exchange for food, claims that its program could save communities a fortune in cleaning costs. According to the Keep Sweden Tidy Foundation, over a billion cigarette butts are left on Sweden’s streets every year which represents about 62 percent of all […]
Chinese Millionaire Spends His Free Time Picking Up Trash From the Streets of His City
Zhong Congrong, a successful businessman from Chongqing, China, has become known as the “the millionaire trash collector,” for his longtime habit of scouring the streets of his city armed with a trash-picking claw and picking up any garbage he finds. The 52-year-old entrepreneur began cleaning up the streets of Chingqing three years ago, after a family […]
California’s “Butt Lady” Picks Up 1 Million Discarded Cigarette Butts in Just Over 3 Years
Sally Dawly is a woman on a mission. Over the last three and a half years, the anti-littering activist has spent most of her free time picking up cigarette butts from the streets of her home city of Auburn, in California, and on this year’s Valentine’s Day she picked up her millionth butt. Dubbed the […]
Mysterious Motorcyclist Hunts Drivers Who Litter, Throws Trash Back in Their Cars
A Russian biker has taken it upon herself to teach people not to litter while driving. And her methods are quite extreme – she follows the offenders on her motorcycle, picks up their trash, and throws it right back into their cars! The mysterious crusader recently uploaded a video of herself in action, which she […]