Spring clean

One bag collected (I do different routes everyday day).

Stupid thirsty trolley has got itself stuck having a sneaky drink

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!

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…..

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.

Village Charcoal Grill

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.

@slackboy

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)

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.

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.

@stumpyjon

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

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.

unceremoniously dumped them over Maccys wall.

😃

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.

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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.

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.

Post Easter holiday litter pick, one bag collected – I expected more. Either people are becoming tidier…..or as I expect a fellow litter picker beat me to it.

We finally got to ‘litter pick’ out in our canoe.
There was a bit more litter on the 1 mile of Peak Forest canal than we thought. It filled half a large bin bag. Mostly dog poo bags (some with contents – yuk), wet wipes (probably from the narrow boats) and a new type of litter – thick plastic dog treat bags.
This is something we’re going to try and do at least once a month, maybe evenings.
One lovely woman in her ignorance announced loudly from the tow path “you won’t find any litter here”, dear lady that’s because of volunteers who come out and pick most of it up while you’re probably still eating breakfast.

Not sure now what to do with future rubbish bags. This time I recycled what I could into our own bins and the rest went into our rubbish collection bin. Any ideas?

&bunnyhop

Not sure now what to do with future rubbish bags. This time I recycled what I could into our own bins and the rest went into our rubbish collection bin. Any ideas?

Don’t know to be honest, I know some of the other CivicPride ‘pickers take their bags home for separating recyclables, me personally I don’t have time for that so unfortunately I pick up everything in my bag which ultimately either goes into landfill or incineration – I’m not sure which. The best solution would be if the Monster swilling darlings recycled themselves but you know🤷‍♂️

I asked ChatGPT for a dog shit and litter poem but it was a bit lengthy so I asked it for a litter Haiku instead. Its a bit bleak!

“Streets filled with debris
Wind carries litter away
Nature weeps in shame”

Oh yeah…..one bag collected.

Did last week’s loop in reverse and collected the heavy bag I left on the path.
Collected another bag of dual carriageway litter and left both at a layby bin. A half full 3rd bag was brought home to finish another day.
Bert did two 💩 !

Little micro-picks compared to RNP up there but it’s not ideal when riding on the dog bike.

It’s that time of year when de yoot find a nice place to gather in the woods of an evening, and make sure that it’s no longer a nice place to gather in the woods of an evening.

Harold wasn’t impressed

I love how expressive Harold is! He’s clearly not happy at the mess but has a smug happiness with your pick and bin stop!

Bert points out litter as we’re walking along – if there’s a can or bottle he noses towards it as if to say “one here for you”

The highs and lows of Berts life!

^one bag collected this morning

Poo and Panda

Not done this popular dog walking area for a while – obviously it was full of bagged dog shit.
On the way home spotted this Panda with a wonky rear wheel in the same place the mobile sex palace (caravan) was dumped last year. Too big for my litter picker so let’s see how long the Panda remains!

^Last year’s MOT – it was ‘fixed’ otherwise fair play little Panda 168k is a good effort!