--- description: Her owner insists she's never trained Paris to do this. title: This Heroic Dog Picks Up Trash and Recycles It image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Heroic Dog Picks Up Trash and Recycles It by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 21, 2016 4:59 PM CUT by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 21, 2016 4:59 PM CUT Meet Paris. She’s a 9-year-old Boxer living in Bodmin, England, with her owner, Fran Hodges. Whenever she goes out for walks, Paris always picks up recyclable materials — mostly plastic bottles and aluminum cans — and carries them to the nearest bin. Hodges insists she’s never trained Paris to do this. She says her dog has been doing it since she was a puppy and it’s just a part of her. Last month, Hodges set up a [Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/Paris-Wombling-Page-One-dog-against-the-litterbugs-541311829360876/timeline "undefined") to document Paris’s recycling missions. Look, here’s Paris being really cute and really environmentally conscious: As Hodges says, “She just won’t walk past a piece of litter without attempting to pick it up and take it with her for the rest of the journey.” ([h/t Daily Dot](http://www.dailydot.com/lol/dog-picks-up-litter-recycling/ "undefined")) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4188623/recycling-dog-england/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4188623/recycling-dog-england/"},"headline":"Heroic Dog Picks Up Trash and Recycles It","datePublished":"2016-01-21T16:59:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:29:01.408Z","description":"Plastic bottles, aluminum cans, wood, you name it","url":"https://time.com/4188623/recycling-dog-england/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4188623/recycling-dog-england/","name":"Heroic Dog Picks Up Trash and Recycles It"}}]}] ```