Tag: LITTER

A Florida police officer recently used Google Earth to track down the person who had illegally dumped an old boat into an undeveloped subdivision about 15 miles from Pensacola. According to the Pensacola News Journal, after discovering the 18-foot boat, Deputy Gregory Barnes scoured fuzzy satellite images of nearby neighborhoods on Google Earth. Barnes noticed a large boat sitting in the driveway ...

Over the last few days, NASA officials have issued warnings that pieces of a 1,400 pound ammonia refrigeration unit will hurtle through the atmosphere and towards the earth's surface today, the Daily Mail reports. Although shards as heavy as 15 pounds could survive the fiercely hot temperatures of their journey, NASA officials insist there is "a very low likelihood that anybody will be ...

London will be the first city to test out new bomb-proof garbage cans, which are also going to multitask as recycling bins with LCDs that stream travel info and news. Security concerns (AKA fear of terrorists dropping bombs in them) have kept rubbish bins out of subway stations and many of the city's streets since the mid-'80s, causing frustration among citizens, not to mention what amounts to ...