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Sheffield council encourages residents to borrow litter-picking equipment
22nd of July 2021
Residents of Sheffield are being offered litter-picking equipment to help them keep their city's streets clean.
Anyone keen to join the scheme is provided with a litter-picker, plastic bags and disposable gloves and is invited to pick up litter from pavements, verges and public land.
Volunteers are asked to secure the rubbish in bags, but no
The lavatory that pays out when users spend a penny
20th of July 2021
A South Korean professor has created an eco-friendly toilet that rewards students with digital currency every time they use it.
Students are "paid" to use the lavatory because each visit helps the university to offset energy bills and grow plants in the campus gardens.
The new eco-toilet toilet at South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of
TVH buys Battery Supplies
13th of July 2021
Spare parts specialist TVH, which has its headquarters in Belgium, has acquired the shares of Battery Supplies - also based in Belgium - and its subsidiaries in Meyzieu, France (Battery Supplies France) and Erftstadt, Germany (BATTEC Batterie Vertrieb).
Founded in 1999, Battery Supplies is a one-stop shop for the supply of batteries, battery
Crow finds a job in a Turkish toilet
9th of July 2021
A washroom attendant in Turkey has found himself an unlikely feathered assistant.
Ismail Atmaca is using a young crow as his deputy when away from his post.
Atmaca, from Birecik in south-east Turkey, found the crow chick on the ground earlier this year. It had apparently fallen from its nest and was too frail to fly. So Atmaca took the bird
Tokyo opens another state-of-the-art toilet ahead of the Olympics
7th of July 2021
A new iconic public toilet has opened in Tokyo. And there are more to come as the city steps up plans to open a series of state-of-the-art facilities ahead of the Olympics.
Situated in Tokyo's Nabeshima Shoto Park, "The Toilet Village" is the brainchild of Kengo Kuma. He is the architect behind the main venue for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic
Spanish cleaning association added 5,000 new workers during pandemic year
28th of June 2021
The Spanish contract cleaning association ASPEL has published its annual report and revealed that it recruited 5,000 new workers to the sector during the pandemic year. This is despite the enormous challenges being faced by the industry as a whole during 2020.
Presenting the findings of the report, president Juan Díez de los Ríos
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