#litter picking

[bull-dieseld]

The Journey of a Bin Pig - Story

[literal-bot-account]

picking up litter is worth it!!

individual environmentalism gets a lot of flak in the face of corporate pollution but picking up litter makes a significant, noticeable impact. I spend about an hour a week picking up litter from around my dorm complex and I'm literally outpacing my community's litter production. Just an hour a week from one person is enough to offset nearly 200 people's worth of littering.

it would take less than 100 man-hours of labor per week to keep my whole college campus entirely litter-free. If you got two classrooms' worth of people to spend two hours per week each picking up litter, the whole campus would end up spotless and they'd straight up fucking run out of things to pick up.

If you're looking for some way to make a noticeable and positive impact on the world around you, go pick up some litter.

[goblincow]

🚯 Litter, Detective! is now available on itch.io! 🚯

THE OBJECT OF THE CRIME IS THE SUBJECT OF YOUR CASE

A conversation game for woodland walks in which two or more players stretch their legs & imagination while tidying up the trash they find.

Litter, Detective! includes mobile friendly, plain text & print-ready versions so you can bring a copy on your next walk.

Part larp, part lyric game, ttrpg-adjacent and fully inspired by the bizarre and mundane refuse that haunts my local walking trails.

Litter, Detective! by Goblincow

A conversation game for woodland walks.

I wrote this game on a typewriter and presented it using graphics scanned from a 1917 trench newspaper called The Wiper's Times.

Here's one of the articles from Tuesday, April 10th, 1917:

[witchothebogfolk]

Today's earth magic is a bit different!

My local council provides bags for litter picking, you just leave them by a public bin and they'll take it away.

Definitely need a grabber, much of what needs picking up is in among brambles and things. But I was able to get a fair amount just with gloved hands. Pretty gross and infuriating how much rubbish there is everywhere, but it did feel really good to clear what I did.

For me, earth magic isn't just about planting pretty things and growing tatties (though I do love those parts of it!), it's about acting as a caretaker, with and for the earth and all her inhabitants.

[mrsjohnwilson]

Community work on Saturday

I had the opportunity to both help my local community and be deservedly humbled on Saturday afternoon. As I do every week I spent the afternoon doing community work arranged and supervised by the Vicar's wife. It is an opportunity for me to perform deserved penance for my past sins which have brought shame to my family and our Church whilst performing useful service to our community.

I have to dress in my usual modest dress and humiliating long knitted wool cardigan for all to see.

I started performing hand washing of laundry in the local old folks home.

This was followed by clearing litter in the main street. It is awful the mess that people leave but a deserved menial task for me to have to clear up. It reminds me of the unnecessary effort I have caused my family through my misbehaviour. It is fitting that I should now have my time spent clearing up the thoughtless mess caused by others.

My final task was to scrub and clean the public toilets as they were used. It was an unpleasant, degrading and humbling task as I had to make clear to anyone who asked why I was performing this work.

I must thank the Vicar's wife for continuing to devote her valuable time to ensure I perform the community work required as part of my ongoing discipline.

The memory of being on my hands and knees scrubbing the public toilets for all to see dressed in my long dress and dowdy wool cardigan will remain with me until I report for duty again next week. This helps ensure I am deterred from further selfish misbheaviour.

Mrs John Wilson

[cleanthestreet]

Someone dropped that sack, saw that it burst and thought 'I am not cleaning that up, there is someone paid to do it.' He was right.

[someoneq]

"everything is terrible and everyone sucks and nothing i do matters"

go outside, do some litter-picking, see how much better it looks after you pick up a bag (any size) of rubbish. talk to someone passing by as you do it because someone will probably thank you for the effort.

make the world better and kinder by being better and kinder. no change is made by wallowing in how much all of it sucks.

[cleaning-nature]

Litter picking tips! 🚯

Figured I'd write down some things that are good to know for beginner litter pickers! These are in no particular order. 1. Use sturdy bags. Those cheap see through ones WILL break. 2. Litter picking on very windy days is no fun, so avoid that if you can. 3. Only use gardening/construction type gloves, not disposable ones. Latex/vinyl gloves just get sweaty and uncomfortable, and they won't protect you very well. 4. This obviously varies depending on where you live, but for us in Sweden, the ideal time to litter pick is during spring before all the vegetation comes up. This is the best time to get into areas like bushes that are normally hard to reach during the summer. 5. If you're walking on a street, it's good to only focus on one side, and then do the other as you're walking back. That way your attention won't be all over the place and you won't have to run across the street all the time. It's also good to go over an area twice, once in each direction. It can be easy to miss some things from one direction, while from the other direction they're very easy to spot. 6. This is an obvious one but, be careful around roads! Wear reflectives if it's dark. High vis vests are also a good idea. Don't litter pick around highways, leave that to people who are actually trained to do that. 7. Bring hand sanitizer, wet wipes are also good. 8. Clean your tools!!!! Even if you're not picking up things with your gloves, sweat and dirt will build up. You do not wanna know how long it took me realize I have to clean my gloves... Litter pickers don't necessarily need to be cleaned after every use unless you've been picking up some real nasty stuff. I still give mine a quick clean every time just because it's nice to use a clean tool + it feels better to store it knowing it's somewhat clean. 9. Use a separate bag for recycling if you're finding a fair amount of it. You really don't wanna go digging for the recycling later on. It might be a bit hard to manage two bags, but it's worth it. 10. If you're throwing your bag in a smaller bin, and the bag isn't full to the point of bursting, tie it up and push out the air from it before throwing it away. Just remember to turn your face away lol. 11. Bring several bags with you. Even if you're not necessarily planning on picking up a lot of trash, you never really know how much you'll find. And you might find things you have to take home (like the time I found a license plate) or things like recycling that should be separated from the main bag. 12. NEVER EVER TAKE YOUR FILLED TRASH BAGS INDOORS!!!!!! I cannot stress this enough!! You have no idea what that bag actually contains. It is going to smell, and it probably contains bugs. I once brought a full bag into my apartment after a litter picking session, thinking I'd just throw it away later because I needed a break. Well, after a little while, I saw lots of earwigs and other bugs crawling on/around the bag and it smelled really bad. If you are unable to throw it away right after your litter picking session, leave it outdoors.