Rubbish News

London - One man’s waste is another man’s gold. According to a report by a British government agency the country’s garbage disposal is potentially worth over $4.5 billion.

As the world celebrates the 60th anniversary of Sir Edmund HIllary's ascent to the top of Mt Everest, environmentalists are complaining about the disgusting mess up there, including loads of human excrement and even the odd corpse.

As there was a three-day strike of the garbage collectors, the municipalities in Spain appealed to the public not to leave garbage in the public streets. The people came up with a novel place to put it all.

Just when you thought that plastic waste was never going to break down in the environment, along comes Mother Nature to solve the problem.

Holborn - A three-month-old kitten was found shivering inside a plastic rubbish bag left on a pile of trash near a block of London flats.

A lifeboat crew rescued an 81-year-old man and a wheelie bin from the waters off North Wales on Friday. The man had set out in a small inflatable dinghy when he saw his neighbour’s bin being swept out to sea.

The United Nations warns in its latest poverty report that at least 1-billion people survive on less than $1 a day. And that more than 500-million of the world population 'lives in poverty'. Yet there's one solution they refuse to mention: birth control.

A new UN report says that a third of Iraq's already beleagured people live in abject poverty.