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A bag for life being dead.
Town square and local cemetery. One bag collected/one bag filled
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Another monomaniacal walk-in, another 90l rucsac. The end is in sight...
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Another monomaniacal walk-in, another 90l rucsac. The end is in sight…
what is that rubbish? Is it flytipping or has someone been camping/living in the woods?
That photo is actually copied across from today's blog post on that very subject...
Dozy Dena
....dropped her bank card. Found her on FB, messaged and dropped it off on the way to work.
But not before going to the offy and buying a load of fags and booze contactless.
Oh yeah - half a bag collected in the pissing rain.
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The big judging day!!!!
National Britain in Bloom day. Woke up early and did 1 1/2hours of micro litter picking - fags butts, tiny bits of paper etc. 1 bag full.
The town is awash with CivicPride hi-viz and t-shirts, everywhere looks amazing!
Good luck Rawtenstall!
Usual hour wander round the local paths and park, the broken window analogy seems to work as very little litter to pick this morning.....
....apart from the Nos knob heads on the path next to Maccys who didn't get the memo.
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Half a bag collected - short walk as Bert goes Canicross running today.
Did a bit a of guerilla gardening.
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Bin lessons
I'm sure people just don't know what a litter bin is our how they work🤷♂️
Apple's from the local park about to be launched into the guerilla garden opposite our house.
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"Blumin foreigners coming over here and taken over"
Himalayan balsam is at full bloom and has taken over a few of our paths, Japanese knotweed is in full grow as well. I wouldn't mind either plant if they didn't die off completely in winter.
1 full bag collected - school holidays+nice weather = more litter.
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Monday morning tidy up following the weekend.
#412 how do you use a bin?
1 bag collected, anyone else over the weekend?
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Looks like someone's dumped a weed grow somewhere - some of it being in the park.
Tidied away, 1bag collected and left at local bin.
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Minging megawatts
Not done this route over the summer as it's too warm for Bert due to the elevation.
Being an engineer I love the concept of this installation - it's a 1MW generator set that uses methane gas from the decaying former quarry/landfill on the hillside above to generate electricity. The woods on the side of the hill are also a popular MTB venue/session area.
1 1/2bags collected, fly tipping reported.
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I did a thing!
Half a bag collected this morning plus a pocket full of apples and some hazelnuts from the other day to plant.
Last year's acorns are doing well - I'm really protective of my mini trees, they are the first thing I've ever grown!
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Two bricker......two bagger
Bit longer walk this morning as off work and no Canicross training today for Bert.
Double bricker kicker under the motorway bridge, plenty of shit lobbed out of vehicles.
1 deer spotted, 2x💩 (Bert), 2bags collected.
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Bumped into this awesome woman tonight who had dived into the layby bushes half way down Buckden Woods (for those who know the cheeky footpath) and cleared out 100's of McCosta**** cups and four van tyres.
I added to her pile later when I looped back round with my Poo&Two.
Check out Litter Picking Ramsbottom on FB
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Bert's back in business
2weeks off but back in the routine again of clearing people's entitlement.
1bag collected.
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Nice start to the day.
Beautiful morning out with my beautiful dog.
1bag collected.
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Bumped into this awesome woman
Fantastic. 😊
Great to have people like this that exist to counter the rest a little.
Stone the crows Magpies
Sorry crows - I've always blamed you for dragging dogshit and detritus out of the bins. Having watched a pair of Magpies this morning I now realize you crows are innocent and you can go back to pecking the eyes out of new born lambs again.
1bag collected, 1bin tidied.
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Near the bin, not in the bin.
You can't be angry though when Harold is in the photo!
Morning paddle
Not the most exciting morning route but plenty of cooling opportunities for Bert.
1 bag collected - mainly from someone's picnic
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Litter picking pays!
Wet uninspiring miserable morning - couldn't be bothered taking a photo. 1bag collected, found 60p in a small pile in the grass!
You can watch the trash free trails summit here: https://www.youtube.com/live/y8f8SMHHTCg?si=QNMPSofXBESAHv3d
They do a lot of data gathering and analysis stuff in an effort to tackle rubbish at source. If you jump to the two talks from 1.29 you can hear a bit about why and what what they’ve discovered so far.
Myles and Monster.
Do we think Myles is going to do well at All Saints?
I think Wednesday nights are sponsored by Monster - found 5 cans this morning. #1 **** drink company.
Otherwise 1 not overly full bag collected.
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Ghosts and Goblins
Wander round town to the cemetery and back. 1bag collected. Didn't rescue the kidnapped Princess Prin-Prin (I had to Google the tenuous link)
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Mmmm... Delicious orange juice.
I'll just leave it here.
I am just here to say ‘thank you’ to you folk for doing this.
Thanks not needed - I'm out with doggo every morning for an hour, it is literally no bother to take a litter picker with me and lunge at stuff as doggo is doing his thing.
Well, millions of people do just that but DON'T do anything, so yeah, big ups 👏
It's acorn and conker time again - collected whilst out with doggo.
Some of last year's are coming on well - I'm well chuffed that I've grown some little baby trees!
Non of last year's conkers did anything though - I don't think there were enough cold days to germinate them. I'm going to freeze some of this years and see what happens.
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You know why I litter pick?
It's because of things like this on tonight's walk over Holcombe. I didn't unearth it - it was already like that but some **** has taken more effort to pick the rock up and smush and hide the bagged poop into the ground than it would to have just carried it. I don't want to be associated with dog owners like that.
Bert had a shit so I did 'poo and two'
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Wow 😐
What light for litter picking?
Dark at 6am nowadays - I felt like a sniper this morning wandering around with my tactical modded litter picker and wearing a poncho for the hammering rain!
Half a soggy wet bag collected, 3deer sniffed out by Bert not shot by me .
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Mid week morning meandering
1bag collected.
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i really dont know about this thread.
Full respect and admiration to what you do.
And i agree with the "broken window" syndrome, if theres litter everywhere i can see it being a sink for more litter.
But i cant fathom who is just, letting go, of litter they've finished with.
I dont imagine they get as far as thinkining "some mug will pick it up later".
Im almost thinking im not pickig it up because its reinforcing that thought process (that they dont go through)
Hanging's too good for them.
Conkers and acorns are in full flood now. Few pocketfulls for planting.
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Penultimate 90l rucsac of other peoples' sh!te carried out of the Great Litter Mine, getting me out on a grim morning. One more to go...
Wheelie good litter picking session this morning.....
1bag with broken VW wheeltrim collected
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Don't know if its because I can't see litter with it being dark or people aren't out to drop litter but I'm only picking up half a bag or so now.
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or people aren’t out to drop litter but I’m only picking up half a bag or so now.
Colder n damper = fewer folk out.
Plus, you may be fixing the broken window faster than it breaks again....
Sorry snail.....
Local gravel path leading to a bench I spotted the other day that needed picking. There's always snails on this path - i usually give them a turbo boost, pick them up and put them further in their direction of travel off the path so they don't get trodden on when the world wakes up.
This morning - two got the turbo boost but an unseen third got that sickening underfoot crunch sound that you know must have been a snail.....
Bench area (not the bench in the photo) cleared of someone's Kestrel Super and Redbull picnic.
1bag collected
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Unfortunately, I found another Covid party site in that patch of woodland: abandoned tent and (presumably) associated rubbish. So that's another two or three rucsac loads that I'll be hoiking out over the coming months. The gift that keeps on giving.
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