The Crows Have Cigarette Butts

What is happening?The Keep Sweden Tidy Foundation says that more than 1 billion cigarette butts left on Sweden’s streets each year. That’s 62% of all litter. Södertälje spends 20m Swedish kronor (£1.6m) on street cleaning.

Why is this important? Corvid Cleaning has trained crows to pick up and collect cigarette butts, potentially saving 75% cost of litter clean up.

How will this be important? The crows have the potential to pick up other tasks as they are said to the have the brain function of 7 year old humans.

The Guardian | Swedish firm deploys crows to pick up cigarette butts