Sentence examples for reduce litter from inspiring English sources

This week, however, it emerged that Selfridges had installed metal spikes outside one of its Manchester stores – apparently to "reduce litter and smoking … following customer complaints".

English shoppers face a 5p charge for plastic carrier bags from today as part of a government scheme to reduce litter and protect wildlife.

Bottle bills reduce litter and pickup/disposal costs and conserve natural resources as recycling uses less energy than making the product from virgin materials.

The bill would reduce litter in rivers and on highways, encourage recycling, save on natural resources and help replenish environmental programs whose budgets have been cut during the economic downturn.

An eyesore to some and invaluable to others, the fliers have touched off a debate among local legislators, who want to reduce litter, and some Rutgers students, who consider the law a violation of their First Amendment rights.

He also made changes in the way the department patrols the watershed, instituted and taught an environmental education program in area schools, and persuaded local garbage collection companies to put up trash baskets to reduce litter around the city's reservoirs.

Mr. Bloomberg said the ban made sense because it would cut the health risks of secondhand smoke and reduce littering by smokers.

This information can be used to inform efforts to reduce littering at these and potentially other locations with similar characteristics.

We conclude that fencing, bin allocation, and participatory litter collection systems are the most efficient measures to reduce littering at festivals and should have high priority in valuable habitats.

At a practical level, the project helped to improve the monitoring and evaluation guidelines and produced evidence-based design guidelines for future campaigns that aim to reduce littering in commercial areas.

For example, Hammond et al. (Hammond et al., 1996) manipulated female Swiss mice by surgically removing their mammary glands during late lactation but did not reduce litters they raised.