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  • Refuse bags full of materials for recycling in different coloured plastic bags. London, UK.
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  • Local response to Coronavirus is felt on a street by street level as children put up drawings in at home to say thank you to refuse collectors on 10th April 2020 in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. Children have been putting up signs right across the UK as people are locked in their homes during the coronavirus outbreak, and want to give out a positive message, in particular to NHS staff and other key workers. Coronavirus or Covid-19 is a new respiratory illness that has not previously been seen in humans. While much or Europe has been placed into lockdown, the UK government has announced more stringent rules as part of their long term strategy, and in particular social distancing.
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  • Poor terraced housing and alleyway in Liverpool with black refuse bags left against poor housing brick walls. Surrounded by black bin-bags during the Merseyside dustmen’s' strike of 1991, we see a cobbled alley of 'back to back' houses in a poor area, South of the city centre, and home to deprived families. The industrial action against the local authority was a health problem for Liverpool during the summer of '91 when streets filled with rubbish. Vermin like rats ran around and public city parks filled with every kind of refuse and garbage. Few of these back-to-backs exist after being cleared to allow construction of high-rise tower-blocks and flats.
    liverpool_refuse01-14-06-1991.jpg
  • A dog owner and her two pet pugs with coloured leads who refuse to go any further while crossing a small bridge over a narrow canal in Dorsoduro, a district in Venice, Italy. Standing near the top of the small bridge that spans a minor canal in the western sestriere, we see the lady in a yellow dress holding red and blue leads that correspondingly hold the reverse dogs' collar colours. they refuse to move, stubbornly laying on the cool pavement during a midsummer heatwave.
    venice_15-21-07-2015_1.jpg
  • Two tourists reading a street map, refuse the chance to buy a helium balloon from a street vendor near the Tower of London. A man selling a huge bundle of tacky balloons with faces of cartoon characters: jumbo elephants; rabbits; clowns and parrots are clearly not of interest to the visitors who have instead, come to the Tower of London for a dose of history and culture. The woman looks shocked and embarrassed while it is the male of the couple who puts up a hand of objection, saying absolutely no to this offer of tat and rubbish.
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  • Piles of rubbish bags awaiting collection by council refuse collectors in central London. As a mimic to the retail design in the background, we see the bags as a pile of contained shapes in Long Acre in London's Covent Garden. The refuse of emptied local litter bins by street sweepers, they are destined for recycling or landfill - the waste of modern city and developed western society, happy to offload its waste to unknown places.
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  • A discarded ironing board with a grinning face leans awaiting refuse collection. The humanoid features form a funny face - the look of a person in turmoil in the hours before being loaded into a refuse lorry and shipped off to landfill or recycling. This is symbolic of our throwaway society, the human interraction between what we make and what we waste.
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  • Council refuse collectors clean up a local Derbyshire fly tipping site.  Fly tipping is the illegal dumping of refuse and has become a major problem in the U.K.  Many local Councils have specialist teams that investigate incidents with a view to bringing criminal prosecutions against serious offenders.
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  • Standing on the back of his utility vehicle, a man empties the contents of his dustbin onto a growing pile of rubbish in a recreation park in the otherwise  affluent Allerton area of Liverpool, Merseyside, England, during the Merseyside dustmans' strike of 1991. Adding to this mountain of refuse, the 'Scouse' man (someone from Liverpool) is seen surrounded by black binliners and items from domestic homes which have been allocated this public space to become a temporary landfill. The industrial action aginst the local authority - over pay and working conditions  - was a health problem for Liverpool's population during the summer of 1991 when streets filled with rubbish. Vermin like rats ran around and public city parks such as this were filled with every kind of refuse and garbage.
    RB_066-13-06-1991.jpg
  • Someone has sprayed grafitti reading 'I love Sam' in an area by the refuse bins on a council estate in North London, UK. A declaration of love in unlikely surroundings.
    20141210_i love sam_A.jpg
  • Litter gathers on and around a refuse bag on a London street. Trash is a real problem in some areas with so many people generating rubbish.
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  • Litter gathers on and around a refuse bag on a London street. Trash is a real problem in some areas with so many people generating rubbish.
    20110731rubbish on streetA.jpg
  • Someone has sprayed grafitti reading 'I love Sam' in an area by the refuse bins on a council estate in North London, UK. A declaration of love in unlikely surroundings.
    20141210_i love sam_B.jpg
  • Large refuse bins outside a grand building in central London on 3rd March 2021 in London, England, United Kingdom.
    20210303_waste bins_001.jpg
  • Household refuse pollutes a coral beach on Meedu Island, an indigenous community in the Republic of the Maldives in the Indian Ocean. Packaging, foodstuffs and general waste has been tossed away on this otherwise beautiful place, north of the capital Male. Unfortunately, the practice of tossing away one's rubbish is a normal practice in this culture, the local people selfishly unconcerned about the future of their habitat and the health of their community. Only a few miles from Meedu are islands that serve as holiday resorts where families from Europe travel by air for the perffect vacation - unaware that fly-tipping is so widespread that it threatens this nation's worldwide status as a paradise on earth.
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  • The Socialist Militant newspaper is held by a man alongside other workers, listen to speeches in central Liverpool during the bin men strike of 1991, on 14th June 1991, in Liverpool, England. The industrial action against the local authority was a health problem for Liverpool over that summer when streets filled with rubbish. Vermin such as rats ran around and public city parks filled with every kind of refuse and garbage.
    liverpool_strike02-14-06-1991 1.jpg
  • A refuse lorry passes a placard asking about the value of a Brexit, attached by pro-Europe anti-Brexit protesters to railings opposite the British Houses of Parliament in Westminster, on 16th October 2018, in London, England.
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  • A refuse lorry passes a placard asking about the value of a Brexit, attached by pro-Europe anti-Brexit protesters to railings opposite the British Houses of Parliament in Westminster, on 16th October 2018, in London, England.
    brexit_sign-14-16-10-2018.jpg
  • Fly tipping of refuse and van on the edge of a park during the second national coronavirus lockdown on 28th November 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The coronavirus lockdown saw a surge in fly tipping due to an increase of household waste and the closure and controlled visiting rules for tips and recycling centres. The new national lockdown is a huge blow to the economy and for individuals who were already struggling, as Covid-19 restrictions are put in place until 2nd December across England, with all non-essential businesses closed.
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  • Upturned refuse bin on along Whitechapel High Street on 13th January 2022 in London, United Kingdom.
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  • Biffa bin lorry collecting refuse on the streets of Barbican in London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Blue refuse bags have been left at the foot of a matching blue brick wall. In this side street of a south London suburb, we see the garbage lying on the pavement (sidewalk) surrounded by autumnal maple leaves. The wall in the background has been roughly painted, the bricks starting to crack. But the picture is about the similar colours of the wall to the Southwark borough council bags that are provided free for residents wishing to dispose of green garden waste only. If you live in a house or flat at street level you will have a blue box and bag for your recycling. In most cases, if you have a green rubbish bin you will also be able to use a blue box and bag.
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  • Black refuse garbage bags pile up after severe snow along South Side Street, Lower Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States of America.
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  • A child carries refuse away from a street market selling birds in Islamic Cairo.
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  • In a rear alleyway between poor terraced housing in Liverpool, England, we see many black bin-bags are left against industrial brick walls awaiting collection during the Merseyside dustmans' strike of 1991. The cobbled alley of these 'back to back' houses are in a poor area, south of the city centre and home to deprived families. The industrial action against the local authority was a health problem for Liverpool during the summer of '91 when streets filled with rubbish. Vermin like rats ran around and public city parks filled with every kind of refuse and garbage. Few of these back-to-backs now exist after being cleared to allow construction of high-rise tower-blocks and flats.
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  • A modern refuse bin outside Bank Underground Station in London, United Kingdom.  The bin has separate sections for general waste and recycling.  The bin also has a digital screen which displays a message about the amount of recycling that Renew has achieved in London.
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  • Upturned refuse bin on along Whitechapel High Street on 13th January 2022 in London, United Kingdom.
    20220112_upturned bin_002.jpg
  • Large refuse bins outside a grand building in central London on 3rd March 2021 in London, England, United Kingdom.
    20210303_waste bins_001.jpg
  • Surrounded by black bin-bags during the Merseyside dustmans' strike of 1991, two young "Scouse' girls lean against a brick wall in a rear alleyway between poor terraced housing in Liverpool, England. There is an older, taller white teenage girl with blonde hair dressed in a blue shell-suit and a shorter and younger friend of Asian-descent. Looking suspicious and amused at something across the cobbled alley of these 'back to back' houses in a poor area, South of the city centre, home to deprived families. The industrial action aginst the local authority was a health problem for Liverpool during the summer of '91 when streets filled with rubbish. Vermin like rats ran around and public city parks filled with every kind of refuse and garbage. Few of these back-to-backs exist after being cleared to allow construction of high-rise tower-blocks and flats.
    RB_017-14-06-1991.jpg
  • Fly tipping of refuse and van on the edge of a park during the second national coronavirus lockdown on 28th November 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The coronavirus lockdown saw a surge in fly tipping due to an increase of household waste and the closure and controlled visiting rules for tips and recycling centres. The new national lockdown is a huge blow to the economy and for individuals who were already struggling, as Covid-19 restrictions are put in place until 2nd December across England, with all non-essential businesses closed.
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  • Rubbish left by a bus stop at the end of lockdown on 15th June in Southampton Row, London, United Kingdom.
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  • Rubbish left by a bus stop at the end of lockdown on 15th June 2020 in Southampton Row, London, United Kingdom.
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  • Rubbish left by a bus stop at the end of lockdown on 15th June 2020 in Southampton Row, London, United Kingdom.
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  • Coaxing a young guest to eat some lunch after a civil wedding ceremony in Essex, England. Family members of parents, aunts and an infant cousin are sitting by an open door when feeding and food is of great importance after hours of formal ceremony. The little boy is reluctant to eat a meal made especially for him before being allowed to eat wedding sweets and cake. This European wedding has taken place inside a covered Orangery at a private wedding and event venue. Rather than marrying in a religious context, the happy couple have preferred to tie the knot in this popular setting for a non-church meaning.
    kate_paul_wedding22-06-07-2012_1.jpg
  • Coca-Cola cans and plastic bottles deposited outside the headquarters of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners plc by climate activists from Extinction Rebellion are pictured on 15th December 2021 in London, United Kingdom. The activists were protesting against the companys role as the worlds biggest plastic polluter and some of its business practices.
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  • Climate activists from Extinction Rebellion protest outside the headquarters of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners plc on 15th December 2021 in London, United Kingdom. The activists, who collected Coca-Cola cans and plastic bottles from around Uxbridge and deposited them outside Coca-Colas offices there, were protesting against the companys role as the worlds biggest plastic polluter and some of its business practices.
    MK-20211215-Extinction-Rebellion-Coc...jpg
  • Climate activists from Extinction Rebellion protest outside the headquarters of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners plc on 15th December 2021 in London, United Kingdom. The activists, who collected Coca-Cola cans and plastic bottles from around Uxbridge and deposited them outside Coca-Colas offices there, were protesting against the companys role as the worlds biggest plastic polluter and some of its business practices.
    MK-20211215-Extinction-Rebellion-Coc...jpg
  • A row of blue wheelie bins are lined-up outside terraced homes in the south London borough of Southwark, on 21st November 2021, in London, England.
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  • A row of blue wheelie bins are lined-up outside terraced homes in the south London borough of Southwark, on 21st November 2021, in London, England.
    terraced_homes-03-21-11-2021.jpg
  • A dog owner and her small Boston Terrier puppy stops with nerves during a short walk through a south London street. Pulling on the young dog's lead, the owner tugs gently to encourage the pooch to carry on their journey along the pavement, a world of new and exciting things to discover at ground level. The Boston Terrier is a breed of dog originating in the United States of America. This "American Gentleman" was accepted in 1893 by the American Kennel Club as a non-sporting breed. The AKC says they are highly intelligent and very easily trained. They are friendly and can be stubborn at times. The average life span of a Boston is around 11 to 13 years, though some can live well into their teens
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  • A charity worker is handing out leaflets in a London street, his hope is to entice the public to give money or lend support to the work of his organisation. He holds out his paper while wearing a bib saying Homeless Not Hopeless meaning that those without a home isn't necessarily without aspiration nor pride. But passers-by only want to continue their journeys unhindered and not bothered by what in Britain are known as charity muggers - or chuggers - and hated for their common presence on street corners, watching for their target demographics to donate hard-earned money. The man walking past without making eye contact is a gentleman of south-Asian or of Arab appearance and he looks to the ground without acknowledging the volunteer worker.
    charity01-15-07-1997_1.jpg
  • Coca-Cola cans and plastic bottles deposited outside the headquarters of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners plc by climate activists from Extinction Rebellion are pictured on 15th December 2021 in London, United Kingdom. The activists were protesting against the companys role as the worlds biggest plastic polluter and some of its business practices.
    MK-20211215-Extinction-Rebellion-Coc...jpg
  • Coffee and soft drinks cups from some of the major take away food and drinks companies piled up on top of an overflowing street rubbish bin in the City of London on 3rd March 2022 in London, United Kingdom. At certain times, especially weekends and public holidays, the volume of people in the area generates a big problem with trash. Rubbish piles high in certain places and proves unsightly for such an important area of London.
    20220303_coffee cups rubbish_006.jpg
  • Coffee and soft drinks cups from some of the major take away food and drinks companies piled up on top of an overflowing street rubbish bin in the City of London on 3rd March 2022 in London, United Kingdom. At certain times, especially weekends and public holidays, the volume of people in the area generates a big problem with trash. Rubbish piles high in certain places and proves unsightly for such an important area of London.
    20220303_coffee cups rubbish_002.jpg
  • Visitors and tourists come to enjoy the bustle of Leicester Square during a half term break as two women pull large green waste wheelie bins on 17th February 2022 in London, United Kingdom.
    20220217_leicester square bins_001.jpg
  • Overflowing bin and litter at Blackfriars, London, UK. At certain times, especially weekends and public holidays, the volume of people in the area generates a big problem with trash. Rubbish piles high in certain places and proves unsightly for such an important area of London.
    20140531_rubbish_A.jpg
  • A man covers his mouth as he crosses the open sewers in a main 'street' of Shadipur Depot. The stink is truly horrific and people, with no personal sewer, defecate in the streets. Water is usually stolen by intercepting municipal pipes. Shadipur Depot, New Delhi, India<br />
The Kathiputli Colony in the Shadipur Depot slum is home to hundreds of (originally Rajasthani) performers. The artistes who live here - from magicians, acrobats, musicians, dancers and puppeteers are often international renowed by always return to the Shadipur slum.
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  • Londoners walk past the mess of litter and rubbish torn apart by overnight animals on a south London street in the borough of Lambeth. The garbage has been thrown under a sapling on this dirty pavement, outside a betting shop run by Betfred. Clothing, household items and foodstuffs are strewn across the sidewalk as pedestrians pass-by.
    street_rubbish01-16-04-2012_1_1.jpg
  • A female mute swan (pen) incubates her eggs on a nest surrounded by plastic bags waste, in an urban water basin. Asleep on the nest, she shares the space with wrappers and bottles, bags and cans tossed from a nearby walkway and perhaps drifted on the water from this urban basin in London's Docklands. The mute swan, which is the white swan most commonly seen in the British Isles, will normally mate at anytime from spring through to summer, with the cygnets being born anytime from May through to July. A swan's nest takes 2-3 weeks and the egg laying process begins with an egg being laid every 12-24 hours. They will all be incubated (ie sat on to start the growth process) at the same time with hatching usually 42 days (6 weeks) later.
    nesting_swan04-06-04-2014.jpg
  • A member of the public passes by piles of bright blue waste bags with a red question mark graffitied above them on 3rd May, 2022 in Manchester, United Kingdom.
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  • Man pushes an empty pram past the vandalised shutters of a high street retail space with piles of bright pink waste bins, each full of rubbish, outside it on 24th April, 2022 in Leeds, United Kingdom.
    DHG_piled_rubbish_sacks_260422_1.jpg
  • Overflowing commercial rubbish bin full of plastic drinks bottles and metal cans on 11th April 2022 in London, United Kingdom.
    20220411_overflowing bin_001.jpg
  • Coffee and soft drinks cups from some of the major take away food and drinks companies piled up on top of an overflowing street rubbish bin in the City of London on 3rd March 2022 in London, United Kingdom. At certain times, especially weekends and public holidays, the volume of people in the area generates a big problem with trash. Rubbish piles high in certain places and proves unsightly for such an important area of London.
    20220303_coffee cups rubbish_004.jpg
  • Coffee and soft drinks cups from some of the major take away food and drinks companies piled up on top of an overflowing street rubbish bin in the City of London on 3rd March 2022 in London, United Kingdom. At certain times, especially weekends and public holidays, the volume of people in the area generates a big problem with trash. Rubbish piles high in certain places and proves unsightly for such an important area of London.
    20220303_coffee cups rubbish_003.jpg
  • Visitors and tourists come to enjoy the bustle of Leicester Square during a half term break as two women pull large green waste wheelie bins on 17th February 2022 in London, United Kingdom.
    20220217_leicester square bins_004.jpg
  • Visitors and tourists come to enjoy the bustle of Leicester Square during a half term break as two women pull large green waste wheelie bins on 17th February 2022 in London, United Kingdom.
    20220217_leicester square bins_003.jpg
  • Downstream waste barges operated by Cory Riverside pass riverside properties at Wapping, on 11th June 2021, in London, England. Cory Riverside Energy operates a fleet of five tugs, with over 50 barges and 1,500 containers. Each barge can carry 20 waste containers, containing a total of 270 tonnes of residual waste. The fleet is used to transport residual waste from waste transfer stations along the River Thames to its Belvedere EfW plant. The river traffic removes around 100,000 vehicle journeys from London’s roads.
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  • Downstream waste barges operated by Cory Riverside pass riverside properties at Wapping, on 11th June 2021, in London, England. Cory Riverside Energy operates a fleet of five tugs, with over 50 barges and 1,500 containers. Each barge can carry 20 waste containers, containing a total of 270 tonnes of residual waste. The fleet is used to transport residual waste from waste transfer stations along the River Thames to its Belvedere EfW plant. The river traffic removes around 100,000 vehicle journeys from London’s roads.
    waste_barge01-11-06-2021.jpg
  • Overflowing bin and litter at Blackfriars, London, UK. At certain times, especially weekends and public holidays, the volume of people in the area generates a big problem with trash. Rubbish piles high in certain places and proves unsightly for such an important area of London.
    20140531_rubbish_C.jpg
  • Overflowing bin and litter at Blackfriars, London, UK. At certain times, especially weekends and public holidays, the volume of people in the area generates a big problem with trash. Rubbish piles high in certain places and proves unsightly for such an important area of London.
    20140531_rubbish_G.jpg
  • Dustbins outside the back of restaurants in Chinatown in London, UK.
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  • Plastic in the sea is collected by the crew of a whale spotting boat out at sea on the Atlantic Ocean looking towards the volcanic coastline near Tazacorte in La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain. La Palma, also San Miguel de La Palma, is the most north-westerly Canary Island in Spain. La Palma has an area of 706 km2 making it the fifth largest of the seven main Canary Islands.
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  • Housing estate looking towards tower blocks over at Highgate in Balsall Heath in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Balsall Heath is a working class, inner-city area of Birmingham, West Midlands, England.
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  • Bags of domestic rubbish seen next to a litter bin on a street in Tower Hamlets, east London, England on December 21, 2018.
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  • A boy uses a polystyrene pack as a drum as he and his friend scavenge for rubbish to sell. Shadipur Depot. Shadipur Depot, New Delhi, India<br />
The Kathiputli Colony in the Shadipur Depot slum is home to hundreds of (originally Rajasthani) performers. The artistes who live here - from magicians, acrobats, musicians, dancers and puppeteers are often international renowed by always return to the Shadipur slum.
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  • A dumped armchair and other domestic rubbish, fly-tipped on a street corner in south London. Abandoned on the pavement, the items have made a mess in this urban location. Furniture and household possessions have been added, perhaps by others, making this area look and feel intimidating. increase in amount of rubbish illegally dumped on roadsides and back alleys cost local authorities £45m in 2014. The figures also reveal the rising cost to the public purse of cleaning up and prosecuting people who dump rubbish, with the clearance bill for local authorities rising 24% to £45.2m.
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  • A solitary person walks over wasteland in Liverpool, England, left after housing was demolished decades ago - its impoverished population having moved out for a better life elsewhere. the sign tells us the name of this road but paint has been daubed over it in an attempt perhaps, to erase its identity now that the community has gone too. Billboards for consumer goods are on show for  non-existent shoppers.
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  • A chest freezer apparently from a shop selling ice creams, has been fly-tipped in a parking bay of a residential street, on 1st January 2019, in Herne Hill, south London, England.
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  • A chest freezer apparently from a shop has been fly-tipped in a parking bay of a residential street, on 1st January 2019, in Herne Hill, south London, England.
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  • A cycle lane is partially blocked by an overspill of rubbish and litter, covering the bike stencil, on 3rd August 2017, in London, England.
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  • Graffiti on a wall in a Chelsea sidestreet proclaims the connection between the 5G network and the Coronavirus pandemic, on 24th August 2020, in London, England.
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  • Derelict housing block, boarded up and covered in graffiti during the second national coronavirus lockdown on 28th November 2020 in Edmonton, London, United Kingdom. The new national lockdown is a huge blow to the economy and for individuals who were already struggling, as Covid-19 restrictions are put in place until 2nd December across England, with all non-essential businesses closed.
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  • Derelict housing block, boarded up and covered in graffiti during the second national coronavirus lockdown on 28th November 2020 in Edmonton, London, United Kingdom. The new national lockdown is a huge blow to the economy and for individuals who were already struggling, as Covid-19 restrictions are put in place until 2nd December across England, with all non-essential businesses closed.
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  • Rubbish bins parked in the highly fashionable Jermyn Street on 19th October 2019 in Londons West End. They are camouflaged with bricks to blend in with the brick wall behind.
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  • A man stops to put a bright blue jacket on outside the vandalised shutters of a Cash Converters, a high street chain specialising in pawning and second hand goods, with piles of bright pink waste bins, each full of rubbish, outside it on 24th April, 2022 in Leeds, United Kingdom.
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  • Overflowing commercial rubbish bin full of plastic drinks bottles and metal cans on 11th April 2022 in London, United Kingdom.
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  • Commercial waste collection rubbish and recycling bags piled high along Whitechapel High Street on 24th March 2022 in London, United Kingdom.
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  • Coffee and soft drinks cups from some of the major take away food and drinks companies piled up on top of an overflowing street rubbish bin in the City of London on 3rd March 2022 in London, United Kingdom. At certain times, especially weekends and public holidays, the volume of people in the area generates a big problem with trash. Rubbish piles high in certain places and proves unsightly for such an important area of London.
    20220303_coffee cups rubbish_005.jpg
  • Visitors and tourists come to enjoy the bustle of Leicester Square during a half term break as two women pull large green waste wheelie bins on 17th February 2022 in London, United Kingdom.
    20220217_leicester square bins_002.jpg
  • Person tries to put some rubbish into an already overflowing bin and litter on 2nd October 2021 in London, United Kingdom. At certain times, especially weekends and public holidays, the volume of people in the area generates a big problem with trash. Rubbish piles high in certain places and proves unsightly for such an important area of London.
    20211002_overflowing bin litter_001.jpg
  • Overflowing bin and litter at Blackfriars, London, UK. At certain times, especially weekends and public holidays, the volume of people in the area generates a big problem with trash. Rubbish piles high in certain places and proves unsightly for such an important area of London.
    20140531_rubbish_D.jpg
  • Overflowing bin and litter at Blackfriars, London, UK. At certain times, especially weekends and public holidays, the volume of people in the area generates a big problem with trash. Rubbish piles high in certain places and proves unsightly for such an important area of London.
    20140531_rubbish_E.jpg
  • Overflowing bin and litter at Blackfriars, London, UK. At certain times, especially weekends and public holidays, the volume of people in the area generates a big problem with trash. Rubbish piles high in certain places and proves unsightly for such an important area of London.
    20140531_rubbish_B.jpg
  • While office workers remain at home in accordance to government Covid guidelines and individual corporate policies, litter has blown towards the entrance of a closed business in the City of London, the capitals financial district, during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 9th March 2021, in London, England.
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  • While office workers remain at home in accordance to government Covid guidelines and individual corporate policies, litter has blown towards the entrance of a closed business in the City of London, the capitals financial district, during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 9th March 2021, in London, England.
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  • A workman clears away old shop fittings and then some discarded sexist ad posters that lie on a London street after being removed from a refurbished shop construction site. Yellow steps ladders, the red exterior of the shop make for prime colours alongside the torn and water soaked posters, the faces and nude bodies of the women showing before being swept away.
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  • Possessions and rubbish collects outside a repossessed Victorian terraced house in south London. In the foreground we see a For Sale sign strapped on the brick wall by local estate agents Burnet Ware & Graves in Herne Hill, Lambeth SE24. The front bay window has been sealed up with plyboard to stop squatters gaining entrance and the domestic remnants of evicted owners who have perhaps defaulted on their mortgage is thrown on the path - a scene of domestic poverty. As a result of the 1987 a stock market collapse, the UK economy experienced a downturn resulting in public services suffering a reduction, including the loss of owners' homes. The recession of the early 1990s describes the period of economic downturn affecting much of the world in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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  • Standing late at night in the doorway of a Soho nightclub in Old Compton Street, London England, a bouncer provides security for his employer. Otherwise known as doormen or door supervisers, these usually hardened men offer a deterrent for anyone causing trouble inside ot out of licensed bars and clubs such as this. Lit from overhead spotlights, he looks menacing and capable of street violence - enough to urge troublemakers to move on quick. reflected in the glass is Ed's Diner a well-known eaterie in this street. Soho is known as a rather seedy but vibrant area of London's West End and late-night social disorder fuelled by excessive alcohol is pretty much normal.
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  • A female mute swan (pen) incubates her eggs on a nest surrounded by plastic bags waste, in an urban water basin. With her beak the same colour as a bag wrapper, she shares the nest with wrappers and bottles, bags and cans tossed from a nearby walkway and perhaps drifted on the water from this urban basin in London's Docklands. The mute swan, which is the white swan most commonly seen in the British Isles, will normally mate at anytime from spring through to summer, with the cygnets being born anytime from May through to July. A swan's nest takes 2-3 weeks and the egg laying process begins with an egg being laid every 12-24 hours. They will all be incubated (ie sat on to start the growth process) at the same time with hatching usually 42 days (6 weeks) later.
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  • Guarded by the male cob, a female mute swan (pen) incubates her eggs on a nest surrounded by plastic bags waste, in an urban water basin. She shares the nest with wrappers and bottles, bags and cans tossed from a nearby walkway and perhaps drifted on the water from this urban basin in London's Docklands. The mute swan, which is the white swan most commonly seen in the British Isles, will normally mate at anytime from spring through to summer, with the cygnets being born anytime from May through to July. A swan's nest takes 2-3 weeks and the egg laying process begins with an egg being laid every 12-24 hours. They will all be incubated (ie sat on to start the growth process) at the same time with hatching usually 42 days (6 weeks) later.
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  • A female mute swan (pen) incubates her eggs on a nest surrounded by plastic bags waste, in an urban water basin. Asleep on the nest, she shares the space with wrappers and bottles, bags and cans tossed from a nearby walkway and perhaps drifted on the water from this urban basin in London's Docklands. The mute swan, which is the white swan most commonly seen in the British Isles, will normally mate at anytime from spring through to summer, with the cygnets being born anytime from May through to July. A swan's nest takes 2-3 weeks and the egg laying process begins with an egg being laid every 12-24 hours. They will all be incubated (ie sat on to start the growth process) at the same time with hatching usually 42 days (6 weeks) later.
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  • A female mute swan (pen) incubates her eggs on a nest surrounded by plastic bags waste, in an urban water basin. Six eggs can be seen under her body as she shifts position and checks their location and safety - watching for any signs of hatching. She shares the space with wrappers and bottles, bags and cans tossed from a nearby walkway and perhaps drifted on the water from this urban basin in London's Docklands. The mute swan, which is the white swan most commonly seen in the British Isles, will normally mate at anytime from spring through to summer, with the cygnets being born anytime from May through to July. A swan's nest takes 2-3 weeks and the egg laying process begins with an egg being laid every 12-24 hours. They will all be incubated (ie sat on to start the growth process) at the same time with hatching usually 42 days (6 weeks) later.
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  • The great British public brave bad weather to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee flotilla on the river Thames. 1,000 boats made their way past Battersea Park, London including their reigning monarch of 60 years and other members of the royal family during a weekend of official festivities and street parties.
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  • Graffiti on a wall in a Chelsea sidestreet proclaims the connection between the 5G network and the Coronavirus pandemic, on 24th August 2020, in London, England.
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  • A discarded disposable face covering of the type used to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus is pictured in front of St Thomas’ Hospital on 30 October 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Environmental groups state that many hundreds of thousands of single-use masks, which contain plastics that pollute water and can harm wildlife, are discarded in towns and around the countryside in the UK.
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  • Dumped mattress on the pavement with the humourous message painted, Nothing really mattress, 28th May 2015, London, United Kingdom.
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  • A modern waste bin on King William Street, Bank, London, United Kingdom.  The rubbish bin has a digital screen installed and shows news messages.  It displays a message: ‘FTSE 100 falls 0.12% at open this morning’.  The bin is located near the Bank of England in the centre of the famous London Square Mile.
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  • Two council bins intended for mixed glass surrounded by waste and rubbish of various kinds on the floor on 2nd May, 2022 in Leeds, United Kingdom.
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  • Two men, one wearing a hood and the other a hat, pass the vandalised shutters of a high street retail space with piles of bright pink waste bins, each full of rubbish, outside it on 24th April, 2022 in Leeds, United Kingdom.
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  • Commercial waste collection rubbish and recycling bags piled high along Whitechapel High Street on 24th March 2022 in London, United Kingdom.
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