Connie’s clean up for Costa Rica
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Back at it again!
After a few weeks off from litterpicking I’m back. The sweet sound of roaring traffic and the fragrant aromas of bin juice were just all too tempting and I have been lured back to the roadside. To be completely honest I’ve just been beginning to feel the so called ‘lockdown-drain’ creep in, and the prospect of litter picking was…
Meeting some friends and lots more clean-ups
It’s been a while since I last posted, however, given the rather samey nature of the clean-ups I feel that doing updates every few weeks should keep my writing (and your reading) as interesting and punchy as possible. As you can imagine, we’ve got a pretty good system going by now and our clean-ups usually follow a similar routine.…
Making it zero-waste and 3 more cleans
Litter picking is a funny thing. While I feel I am certainly making a genuine impact on reducing the amount of rubbish scattered across our landscape, the sheer number of plastic bin bags we’ve been getting through on these clean-ups seems slightly paradoxical to my plastic-free mission. Even if our work is going to a good cause, we are…
Where does it all go?
One of the main questions you may have towards my litter collection is just where does it all go? While I do believe that removing plastic from our roadsides serves a a major aesthetic purpose, it’s also crucial to think of its environmental impact and in-turn the importance to dispose of it responsibly. After having…
Shocking Seatown (4th Jan)
Today we ventured away from the usual winding lanes and A roads and instead headed somewhere where much of the plastic we’ve already collected would have ended up – the ocean. We went down to the small village of Seatown (just outside Bridport) as I remember seeing lots of plastic on the beach and along…
Antics on the A35
Today was an absolute field day on the litter front. We managed to pick, pull and prise around 10 full bin bags of rubbish that was mostly strewn along the A35. With a vague plan in mind but nothing solid, I had anticipated we’d be off the A35 quite quickly and looking around for laybys…
New Years day clean up (number 3)
Today I realised that freezing weather and litter picking aren’t a great combination. Not only does the bitter cold eliminate the appeal of standing outside, but the ice itself appears to act as your enemy, physically locking up litter into multicoloured frozen blocks. Nevertheless we thought we’d seize the lack of traffic (being New Years…
Second clean-up: 27th December
My second clean up was no less shocking than the first. While again I collected many bags full of cans and bottles this time my collection also saw a half a chair, various plastic vats and five tyres grace the boot of my little (but now very mucky) polo. My location today was a scenic…
First clean-up: 13th December
I have to say my discovery at my first clean-up was utterly shocking; after covering only around 200m of roadside between Marshwood and Fishpond, I managed to fill 5 full bin bags. I knew that this was a pretty busy road and had seen glints of cans and plastic hidden in the leaves here before,…
Total donations: £2,031!
Rubbish collected so far: 47 bin bags
As well as a broken chair, a sink, 5 tyres, six plastic vats and a really ancient broken TV…
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