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Litter warning after hundreds of animals injured in Devon and Cornwall
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-68544131
The Great British Spring Clean runs 15th to 31st March.
Do your bit and tidy our nation. We're the dirty nation of Europe.
No bin? No excuse (to drop it, or stuff it in a hedge). Take your litter home.
'Rubbish Ruth', 79, travels over 500 miles on 59 buses to pick up litter
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/rubbish-ruth-79-travels-over-9010464
Retiree travels UK on free bus pass to pick litter
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c72yljdp5njo
There's a novel idea, and one that not only cuts down on litter, but encourages social interaction & improves wellbeing & mental health.
Well done, Ruth. We need more like you.
#Litter #Trash #Rubbish #Garbage #LitterPicking #Womble #Environment #CivicPride#BusTravel #BusPass #Volunteer #Redruth #Cornwall #Wellbeing #MentalHealth
I went hiking today, so... yah know.
Found three treasures while litterpicking, including another Mesolithic worked flint - 7 from the same area so far (2 x blades and 2 x points/barbs were notably close finds). This one is the same grey flint, and it's been worked as a core, but only about a third remains because it broke from intense heating. Archaeologists sometimes record these heated flints as "potboilers" but I'm not convinced that applies to this artifact. It seems to be part of a core with usable flint that was put beyond use either intentionally or in a natural wildfire. I was already beginning to wonder if a tool - spear/harpoon - was mislaid and I've been finding some of the pieces. Now I'm wondering if a campsite was lost or even a human life: landslip, wildfire, hunting accident? Impossible to know but I can't help speculating.
Sunset seen while out litterpicking yesterday evening.
Two tiny worked Mesolithic flints, probably used as barbs on spears. The smallest, which I found yesterday while litterpicking, is 11x6mm. Apart from me, you're the first people to see the one on the left for over 8,000 years.
Guess who just found the teeniest Mesolithic microlith while litterpicking on a sunset walk? Me! Strange to be the first person for over 8,000 years to see this human manufactured tool.
Day #11 of cleaning up litter along my #Commute route.
Another 18 days has passed since my last cleanup.
I expanded my territory again (as well as cleaning up my existing stretch of road), and managed to get another tire, a television, some siding, and three more bags of miscellaneous trash.
So far:
31 Tires
40 Bags of trash
Oh, look— a tube! If only I had a tire.
CW: Cannabis use, with food (tofu) present in background
When I hike, I always pick up trash as I go. The place I was at is fairly good with litter, but there were still a few things to pick up... including half a joint.
I was a good citizen and picked it up. The wrapper I didn't trust, but the contents were still good and very effective after dinner and before bed.
Day #10 of cleaning up litter along my #Commute route.
Even with my expanded territory (a 1.2 km stretch of rural road), I only managed to find one bag's worth of trash along the whole thing. My last maintenance cleanup was 18 days ago.
So far: 30 Tires 37 Bags of trash
No more tires in the ditch, and things have grown in a lot.
This is one of the spots I cleaned up, and I enjoyed a rest stop here on the way home from work today— perched on that thick end piece that's supposed to crumple /just so/ when crashed into.
Please, please: If you see trash, pick it up and get rid of it... even if it's not yours. The more of us do it, the easier it is to maintain.
Left photo: 14 May, 2023
Right photo: 10 April, 2023
Day #9 of cleaning up litter along my #Commute route.
I expanded my reach a bit and cleaned up a little farther along my route. I got all of the junk in the picture, plus 2.5 bags to add to yesterday's measly half a bag.
So far: 30 Tires 36 Bags of trash
Day #8 of cleaning up litter along my commute route.
It's been a few weeks since I was last out, and only a half a bag needed to be cleaned up along the whole damn thing.
I was expecting much worse than that.
#Litter #LitterPicking #Cleanup #Pollution #DontBeATosser
Here's the legacy list of all of my #DontBeATosser litter picking and cleanup posts from my previous instance: https://fosstodon.org/@wolfeh/tagged/DontBeATosser
CW: Cannabis Use
Day #7 of cleaning up litter along my #Commute route.
I made myself a hard-to-miss #Smoking spot on my ride home from work.
I cleaned everything up, and now I have a place to stop mid-commute and relax with some #Cannabis in the shade.
I was on my bike, so the bag that I filled up is still out there. I'll get it tomorrow when I drive past on my way out of town.
So far: 29 Tires 33 Bags of trash
Day #6 of picking up trash along my commute route.
4 more tires (some with wheels) makes 29 total since I started cleaning up. I only had time to stop for a few minutes today, but any progress is good.
