Innovative Efforts to Train Crows to Collect Cigarette Butts

environment · Sweden and the Netherlands

Start-up companies in Sweden and the Netherlands have piloted projects to train wild crows to collect cigarette butts in exchange for food rewards, aiming to reduce litter. However, concerns about the impact on birds and funding issues have challenged these initiatives.

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• “A Swedish start-up company, Corvid Cleaning, is at the pilot stage, training wild crows to pick up cigarette butts... Another start-up, Crowded Cities, was working on training crows... ended the project due to lack of money and unknown impact on crows.” — The Islands Grapevine – September 7th, 2023 (September 7th, 2023)

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