Ok so picking up litter on a wintery cold, rainy and windy Sunday in Scotland is pretty brutal but if humans keep polluting our own home then some of us are compelled to do clean ups! For Earth Day a hardy few of us took to the hill and removed 8 sacks of waste, 2 sacks of recyclable drinks cans and several large items of waste.
We had some signs to declare our mission - 1 person tooted yeah! no-one else
stopped to join us, boo! What would be helpful would be a change in behaviour (understanding even) that throwing rubbish out of your car is not acceptable. I would encourage others to pick litter up when they notice it, maybe mention it to a friend, teach our children how wrong this behaviour is and it would be great to think we could start to treat our planet better.
Thanks to Donald @ Aberdeenshire Council for the loan of the litter pickers and bag hoops which definitely made the job easier.
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