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Stepping up the game from the little mini silver canisters you see strewn everywhere these days.
Yeah - same round here. I don't mind it - they are easier to pick up. I just wish the thick ****s would shove em in a bin when they've finished with them but I don't suppose you can expect much from someone who thinks inhaling industrial NO2 is a good idea*
*proper old person style whinge!
This thread is brilliant! I just need a dog and a litter picker and then I’m in. I’ll try and do some when I work from the local office and walk back.
but I don’t suppose you can expect much from someone who thinks inhaling industrial NO2 is a good idea*
Industrial grade No2 is mixed with sulphur (dioxide?) to specificaly make it toxic for human consumption, but still good for industrial applications or making your car go faster.
This stuff must be food grade or medical grade, AKA pure.
I'm guessing these are imported as there no way you could legitematley buy that with that branding.
I’m guessing these are imported as there no way you could legitematley buy that with that branding.
Perfectly legitimate. It’s sold for catering use in making whipped cream or something like that.
Obviously the people who are selling it will be fully aware that it’s not being used for that purpose but hey, at least they can make loads of money on it ☹️
Strava log - 2.4mile, 2poo's (Bert) one bag.
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The government's post covid three word slogan seems to actually work this time.
"Poo and two"
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Another nice evening out for the cream soda crazies.
They're obviously driving away after enjoying their six bottles of gas which obviously isn't the Mae West. 😐
Harold doesn't look very happy - I think he prefers Vodka🤣
A blustery bag collected and left in local park, half a bag collected on route home.
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Mild, moist morning meandering, 1 bag collected - cans and bottles offloaded into someone's recycling bin bag left at local council bin
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Links for good quality litter pickers?
5plusn8
Free Member
Links for good quality litter pickers?
Unger are supposedly the best - mine has been good, will quite happily lift glass wine bottles
https://www.ungerglobal.com/uk/products/niftynabber-trigger-grip
just came here to get a recommendation for new pickers, our wilko specials have broken*
*were being used as propulsion devices for a heely clad child mid litter pick and 'just broke Dad'.
One bag collected (I do different routes everyday day).
Stupid thirsty trolley has got itself stuck having a sneaky drink
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Always amazes me the lengths folks will go to, to put shopping trolleys in unlikely positions.
It's MrsRNP birthday today so I celebrated by picking up a bags worth of litter!
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Pulled this bad boy out of the canal on the cycle to work this morning (the post, not the dog)
This'll be heavy Harold! Says I.
Not so, plastic and completely hollow. Like most things these days. Theme park wood!
I'll take it back to the council and suggest they actually fix it into the ground.
What to get though, 93 or 102cm?
What to get though, 93 or 102cm?
I got the 102cm it's good for reaching litter but it's a bit too long for then depositing the litter in my bag - you end up having to go wide with your arm and swivelling the picker round.
I've got knuckle dragging length arms as opposed to T-rex style if that helps?
One bag collected, had a quick chat with a fellow litter picked as I'd strayed onto his regular patch. It's not quite Glasgow ice cream van wars but it could head that way.....
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Made The Times best places to live list;
https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/23404476.rawtenstall-one-best-places-live-north-west/
Fast food companies have a lot to answer for on this issue. It's the 'faceless' aspect of it that encourages bad behaviour. If I know the guy serving + he owns the cafe, it's part of my community. I want to keep that clean. At McDonalds, there is no connection like that.
Fixed penalty notices should be replaced by a morning litter-pick, that'd help!
REDUCE
REUSE
RECYCLE
Fast food companies have a lot to answer for on this issue
Personally, I don't blame anyone except the person littering.
The buck stops there no matter what.
We were sat in our local turkish and some guys took their takeaway food to their car opposite.
Having finished they lobbed the rubbish out the window.
I tutted loudly , the son of the family owned restaurant went over and picked it up.
Good food ,good people.
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Made The Times best places to live list
Thanks in no small part to people like you taking pride in the area. As a local it's very much appreciated.
It's not me - I'm just wandering around behind my dog picking his and other people's shit up. It's CivicPride who are the inspirational heroes - they have and continue to do an awesome job for Rawtenstall and neighboring villages in the Rossendale valley.
(This link does work if you click on it)
https://www.civic-pride.org.uk/gardens/
Competition time!!!!!
If anyone submits a photo of a Monster Energy Drink empty can correctly placed* in a litter bin by its original purchaser they win a prize......
One bag collected and a random bag of polystyrene blowing in the wind.
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Been in Perpignan (provincial town in southern France) and surrounding area for just under a week - it's a few years since I've been out here due to covid and work so before I started litter picking.
I was interested to see how comparable France is litter wise and I must say the place is immaculate. There are signs alongside all major roads saying not to throw litter from cars and I had to translate a sticker I noticed on a few lamps posts (throw cigarette butts in a bin).
I only spotted a few items of litter - I think that if I did a week of wandering about with a litter picker i'd at most get half a normal Uk bag.
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RNP, what do do with litter collected? I'm very tempted to walk Crown Point as the ditches are full of litter, all from,passing cars i think, lots of cans and bottles. Ive done odd bits before but I can see bow bad it is at the moment as I puff and wheeze over the tops on my bike.
Noticed a lady out with a trolley who did a lot of Deerplay although the litter started to reappear in days.
Wife was in Belgium last week and said it was spotless compared to here.
RNP, what do do with litter collected?
If you contact CivicPride they can give you some 'council' bin/litter bags (the purple or green ones in my pics). These would then be collected by the rubbish van on his rounds.
Do the bags cross borders, Crown Point is in Burnley whilst I live in Roosendale. Got one of those bag holding loops on order.
Back to reality again this morning after my week in litter free France, one bag collected with broken bottles (3) being the litière du jour
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Pissheads and polythene.
Not done this route for a few weeks - somebody who uses it has an alcohol issue, the grass is littered with discarded wine bottles. I filled a bag and had to leave it (I'll go the opposite direction tomorrow and take it too the nearby bin).
Further on the path runs alongside a dual carriageway - filled a second bag with polythene wrapping and the usual cans& bottles. Bag left at bus stop bin.
Nice path leading to/from McDonald's was littered, had run out of bags at this point so carried them and unceremoniously dumped them over Maccys wall.
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unceremoniously dumped them over Maccys wall.
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Same here RNP, just returned from France. The only littering I saw were cigarette butts around parks or outside drinking establishments.
Our local 'green refill' shop lends out litter pickers free of charge.
We need to get the canoe out this Easter weekend and get the canal cleared.
You really need to get some gloves. Who knows how much farage is on those cups &c.
Also,
Yeeting it over McD's wall might be cathartic but it just displaces the problem. Some other poor sod will have to clean it up and it's not their fault.
Arguably, it's not McD's fault either. Takeaway food is always going to require packaging and McD's isn't particularly excessive, the problem is their scrotal customers.
Cougar
Full Member
You really need to get some gloves. Who knows how much farage is on those cups &c.
🤣 I think about you squirming every time I pick some litter up!
Also,
Yeeting it over McD’s wall might be cathartic but it just displaces the problem. Some other poor sod will have to clean it up and it’s not their fault.
Arguably, it’s not McD’s fault either. Takeaway food is always going to require packaging and McD’s isn’t particularly excessive, the problem is their scrotal customers.
Yeah I get that but me quietly picking their litter up doesn't resolve anything. The profits of McDonald's / Red bull / Monster etc could run campaigns that would massively reduce littering...but they don't so **** em their plastic single use cup lids and waxed paper cups get thrown back at them.
🤣 I think about you squirming every time I pick some litter up!
Aw, that's sweet.
Yeah I get that but me quietly picking their litter up doesn’t resolve anything. The profits of McDonald’s / Red bull / Monster etc could run campaigns that would massively reduce littering…but they don’t so **** em their plastic single use cup lids and waxed paper cups get thrown back at them.
It's an odd one. It staggers me that anyone would go "wait, littering is bad? I had no idea!" Wasn't it Bill Hicks who ranted about health warnings on cigarette packs, "holy shit, these things are bad for you?!" But we've had campaigns like Keep Britain Tidy in the past and as far as I'm aware it was successful.
It needs to be become socially unacceptable. Lighting up a cigarette in a cinema today would be unthinkable, I remember when you could barely see the screen for the smoke.
Crow raided / dog poo fetish bin cleared up, 1bag collected from general meandering.
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Crow raided / dog poo fetish bin
See, that's my biggest issue with collecting, if you dump a bag next to a bin the crows and gulls will have it ripped open in short order.
We also have a cleansing depot across the roadand you see the buggers flinging bags out the skips!
Those open topped bins are rubbish - I've watched crows roosting in the adjacent trees swoop down and fling everything out. It's worse in summer as more people use the park and bin foodstuffs.