[Link] Bottles, cans, batteries: octopuses found using litter on seabed

Read: 8/3/2022 www.theguardian.com

Whether it’s mimicking venomous creatures, or shooting jets of water at aquarium light switches to turn them off, octopuses are nothing if not resourceful.

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[Link] Australia’s hard rubbish heroes risk council fines to recycle and re-home their kerbside plunder

Read: 7/2/2022 www.theguardian.com

An abandoned sound system left outside a club. A giant paper elephant 2m long and 1m high. A group of puppets, waiting to be liberated. Annual kerbside cleanup days are, for some, akin to Christmas – a holy time for up-cyclers and “waste warriors” to forage the streets for a speck of gold.

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[Link] Baby turtles ingest more plastic than adults due to how they eat, where they live

Read: 5/8/2021 www.abc.net.au

Baby turtles are more likely to consume plastic waste polluting the ocean than adults because of their eating habits, an international team of researchers has found.

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