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A Milan fashion show featured clothing models having trash — including food and drinks — thrown at them by audience members in an effort by the designer to simulate online commentary. Designer Beate Karlsson created the new, garbage-covered line for Avavav, for which she is the creative director. The company describes itself as an independent fashion house "striving for creative freedom, driven by humor, entertainment and design evolution." Creative freedom might be an understatement for Karlsson's recent show during Milan Fashion Week, where models had drinks, discarded food wrappers, and other garbage thrown at them on the runway. The performance...

The Texas bank of the Rio Grande is littered with growing mounds of discarded garbage left behind by the thousands of migrants entering the United States. Breitbart Texas retraced the path taken by nearly 500 migrants each day. On Wednesday, Breitbart Texas posted at the river’s edge and navigated the narrow tunnel-like trails through dense Carrizo cane. The cane, an invasive giant reed, lines the Rio Grande making the first 100 yards of the trail difficult to move through. Discarded clothing, plastics, shoes, hygiene items, medicines, and identity documents are left behind every step of the trail. The documents found...

Full title: So much for clearing up the planet! Climate change protesters who marched through Manhattan are branded hypocrites for leaving litter strewn across the city Climate change skeptics have branded protesters who marched through Manhattan on Sunday as hypocrites for leaving litter strewn across the city. New Yorkers uploaded images to social media sites showing piles of trash - included ditched paper and cardboard signs - left behind after thousands took part in the People's Climate March. 'Their love for the Earth is so real, they couldn't even use a trash can,' one critic, known as @chelsea_elisa on Twitter,...

Littering on Everest is a significant issue, both on the base camps and higher up the mountain itself. In recent years both Nepal and China have implemented measures to try to force climbers to bring their waste down with them, and not leave it on the mountain. Nepal in 2014 began charging a $4,000 garbage deposit that would be forfeited if climbers fail to return with their trash. The government of the Tibet Autonomous Region statement announcing the closure called for further action to protect Mount Everest, saying that workers had collected some 9 tons of trash from above 17,000...

The Occupy Wall Street movement has received so much media coverage in recent weeks that it’s nearly impossible to keep abreast of all the developments. So many endorsements and criticisms coming from all directions enter the news cycle in such rapid succession that even the most dedicated news junkies may have missed out on many of the pronouncements. Supporters and detractors of OWS both might find it useful to have a handy all-inclusive list of who has endorsed or embraced the protest. To satisfy that demand, we hereby present a list of groups, organizations, individuals and entities that have expressed...

Inaugural revelers are lucky they didn't get fined for littering. As crowds cleared the city Tuesday, their trash covered the National Mall and Washington Monument grounds after President Barack Obama's inauguration. They left behind plastic bottles, newspapers, food wrappers, gloves and even American flags they had been waving. Trash bins overflowed with items people tossed.

PALOMINAS — Some of the garbage was located in thick brush. Other pieces of litter were embedded in the frozen ground. But a tireless group of 25 people still managed to collect nearly every item of trash along a steep trail in Ash Canyon on Monday. They filled a total of about 50 jumbo-sized trash bags. The area is frequently traveled by illegal immigrants who leave behind piles of things like plastic bottles, metal cans, clothing and backpacks. This effort was the second in a series of cleanups that are being organized by Steve Willsey of Hereford. The hike up...

I need some help. I have a generally conservative friend who is completely convinced that everyone who goes to a smoke-filled bar more then once in their life is gonna die lf lung cancer, etc. And is working to get smoking in bars and resturants banned in my state :( I've read studies that show second-hand smoke isn't nearly as harmful as the MSM tries to make it out to be, but I've been short of luck finding them online. Can anybody link me to them?

Wed Oct 20, 8:39 PM ET Supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites), D-Mass, walk through signs which have been left behind after a rally at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2004. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)

May 31, 2004: Yes, you read the title correctly. We're celebrating, because we're helping to take them on. While the day is usually greeted by an annual flood of orchestrated media events and press conference strategies that demonize, not only smoking, but smokers, World No Tobacco Day 2004 offers something new: a competitor with teeth. FORCES is pleased to be part of the proud announcement by AEthna Press of the publication of "Dissecting Antismokers' Brains" by Michael J. McFadden on World No Tobacco Day. Memorial Day is the "unnoffical" start of summer in the USA, let us make it the...

SACRAMENTO -- Motorists who flick cigarette butts out the window could be fined more than their car is worth under legislation proposed by a Southern California assemblyman. The bill would raise the stakes for adding to the millions of smoldering butts discarded annually. Fines and penalties would range from a minimum of $3,400 for first-time offenders to $20,400 for those cited three times or more. "I want to reach the point where the fine is so significant that it's just not worth it (to litter)," said Assemblyman Russ Bogh, R-Cherry Valley, who introduced the measure, Assembly Bill 2694. It targets...