7M pounds of trash pulled from waterways
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Smokers are littering shorelines and waterways worldwide with millions of cigarettes, and their filters topped the list of trash items culled during last year's annual international coastal cleanup, according to a new report.
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An army of volunteers cleared bags of litter from a popular beach during a clean-up drive.   Youngsters to grandparents headed to Saltburn beach on Saturday to take part in the Adopt a Beach event organised by the Marine Conservation Society.
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At least 10 people died and thousands were sickened after chemical waste pumped from a tanker was dumped across the capital city in August.
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THE DAVE MATTHEWS BAND are to try to make up for dumping human waste from its tour bus onto a boat full of tourists on the CHICAGO RIVER earlier this year.
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By YP Rajesh and Suresh Seshadri in Cuddalore and Madras, India. RESCUE workers pulled rotting corpses from canals and water-logged fields in India today, as the government warned the death toll of more than
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By John Stark, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Jun. 9--The final cleanup of a dump along the Nooksack River's south fork could cost a half million dollars or more, but no source for that money is immediately available.
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By Frank Munger, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Tenn.  Jun. 4--OAK RIDGE -- The cleanup apparently is working.
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By Alexandra Mayer-Hohdahl, The Sun, Lowell, Mass.  Jun. 19--LOWELL -- Members of the Lowell Fire Department and its Hazardous Materials Team worked early Monday afternoon to contain a substance that had been spotted on the water of the city's Northern Canal.
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Benjamat Moongdee picked through the rubbish and debris from last month's tsunami to find anything she might sell.
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By Dave Black  A development company was ordered to pay more than pounds 17,000 yesterday after admitting a second offence of allowing sewage effluent from a flagship housing project to pollute a Northumberland river.
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By Anna King, Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Feb. 7--Workers on Tuesday towed to safety a piece of motorized track equipment that dangled from a bridge over the Columbia River.
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Floodwaters swept a truck down a raging river in remote southern Zimbabwe, killing seven people, police said Friday.
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Chinese efforts to restock a polluted northern river with fish ran into problems when more than 1,000 residents started hauling them out almost as soon as they were put in, state media said on Thursday.
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More than 2,000 tonnes of timber off a sunken ship have washed up on the English south coast, littering beaches with giant piles of wood.
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By SIOBHAN GAFFNEY NEARLY one- third of the rivers and groundwater sources in Ireland are polluted by human, animal, farming and industrial waste, according to a nationwide survey.
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By PAT FLANAGAN  THOUSANDS of tonnes of raw sewage are polluting Ireland's historic fishing rivers and holiday resorts, it was revealed yesterday.   Almost a fifth of human waste is discharged with little or no treatment, the Environmental Protection Agency disclosed.
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NEARLY one- third of the rivers and groundwater sources in Ireland are polluted by human, animal, farming and industrial waste, according to a nationwide survey.