Five years earlier, another oceanographer learned of the trash after a shipment of rubber duckies got lost at sea.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

The plastic can block air passages. The trash can also make the animal feel full, lessening its desire to eat or drink.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

Rigo Estrada says he used to be the kind of person who threw trash on the street.

VOA: special.2011.05.12

People across the state will work together on one hundred twenty-five local projects to clean trash, remove invasive plants and improve water areas.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

In the nineteen nineties, New York City officials started a campaign to remove signs of disorder like broken windows, graffiti markings and trash.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

In high school, he won a local competition to design an advertisement for an anti-trash campaign.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

The movie is about trash pickers who collect paper in the streets of Buenos Aires.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

The eleven owners of Pedal People not only pick up and remove trash and recycling.

VOA: special.2009.12.04

Threats the condors face in the wild include lead poisoning and mistaking trash for food.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

Several movies at the festival examined trash in different parts of the world.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

Then they sell the paper to sorting centers who prepare trash for recycling.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

Some of the trash finds its way to coastal areas around the world.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

The city of Northampton does not provide trash and recycling pick-up services.

VOA: special.2009.12.04

He and Miz Woodring thought that other people in town might pay them to remove trash and recycling materials instead of using a private trash company that uses trucks.

VOA: special.2009.12.04

But in their enthusiasm, it became apparent that Yemen's habit of dropping trash could not be broken with one event.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

Now,small trees dot the once barren schoolyard of a village elementary school, along with special trash cans for biodegradable waste.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

They came to the village to clean up the trash, climb the massive rocks atop the mountain, and later have a picnic.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

"The biggest thing was just like this paper airplane, it was a way that you can make something with found materials,cheap paper, scraps,even trash."

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

but for Shrek, the ordinary life of taking out the trash, cooking dinners and changing diapers soon has him longing for the adventures he once had.

VOA: standard.2010.05.27

And springs that feed them are blocked by trash and human waste.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

Instead of going into a hole on the green, discs are thrown into a raised metal basket that looks a bit like a trash bin covered in chains.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

Allen Hershkowitz with the Natural Resources Defense Council, a private environmental group, says air quality around landfill sites must be carefully checked when oil-contaminated waste is added to normal household trash.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

"There were vacant lots, a lot of trash,garbage here."

VOA: standard.2010.03.10

Like other kinds of trash dumped into landfills, the waste from the Gulf cleanup will eventually decompose, releasing a variety of gases and liquids which are vented or disposed of in turn.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

Trash cans,potted plants, street lamps."

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

Hershkowitz says,ideally, the Gulf cleanup's oily trash should be disposed of in an energy-producing furnace, but there are currently no facilities large enough to handle the volume of waste being generated by the cleanup efforts.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05