Ah, I see, that's too bad!

Luckily, we have a system here that works pretty well for plastic and glass bottles as well as cans. It’s only small change, but if you collect trash often enough, it somewhat does add up... I also keep coming across cans from before the deposit system was introduced, or, especially along the roads, ones that have been run through the road maintenance department’s shredder and are therefore no longer accepted. Right now, I’m collecting them and want to see if it’s worth selling them as aluminum scrap once I’ve gathered a few buckets’ worth. I recently found a video showing that this is apparently possible, at least in the U.S.:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5K0RT7cxs4

unfortunately there isn't any deposit system, but for the cans we do have curbside recycling, so I try to separate them and toss em in my bin.

Good job! Is there a deposit system for bottles and cans in your area? I’ve also thought about going on a little “detrash” canoe trip with friends on our little river, and I imagine we’d often find bottles, Styrofoam, and cans… basically anything that floats.

Thank you!

Nice work

Heck yeah! So happy to see someone else posting, especially someone doing bigger pulls!

Thanks man!

And by the way, also thanks for starting this community. I'd really missed it after moving here from Reddit.

Nice haul of stuff! It’s always wild when people you’d think are slightly more pro nature just dump stuff in it.

Nice!

I dunno about much, but homie at the top there is appalled

Today’s highlight: An ancient, corded electric razor.

They meant to harvest all the litters of kitties.

Right?? Get some odd stuff out here haha

That metal hook at the 9 o'clock posistion in the photo is used for putting overtop of a door in a house to hang something. These are typically used in fabric/mesh clothes drying racks. Usually its a pair of these. What a strange item to end up outside on your morning walk.

Hell yeah, get it!

Yeah although I'm at least lucky in that regard as all the parks in my city do offsite sorting for recycling, so I can dump everything in park garbage bins and it'll at least still get sorted.

I used to do this. You just reminded me that it's been years since I have. I'm going to do this again.

One thing I hate is all the recycling. I only have the one bucket and it all goes in the garbage but its like as much as I hate it its better than it being strewn about.

My city has teenagers walking around picking up trash and changing garbage bins out. I have never seen that in a park during the day, full on employees. We have some of the nicest parks and it’s no surprise

Heck yeah, do it! It'll give you those good feels, and it's such an immediate nice before/after visual

Oh yeah the only time it works for me while walking the dog is if my wife comes too and she does the actual dog part; it'd be a disaster otherwise

It's comfier to hold onto while walking around, and it helps hold the bucket at a bit more of an angle for easier dropping stuff into it. The only issue with it is I leave the bucket around the side of our house and the rope is pretty gross right now, by the time I'm home all I want to do is wash my hands haha.

Edit - yeah exactly as the other replies said!

It's really cool that you're doing this. I think you've inspired me to start in my area and hopefully even inspire others to do the same.

Plus it holds the bucket at a nicer angle so you don't need to bend your other wrist as much to put the litter in

I used to do this when I had a dog that could handle offleash.