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Welcome to DeTrashed | For community cleanups, magnet fishing hauls, tools, technologies, news, and more! (slrpnk.net)
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Welcome fellow trash pickers!

If this is your first time on the Solarpunk instance, check out our wiki article "What is Solarpunk?" and our instance rules.

The picture for this post is of Mr. Trash Wheel, the patron saint of trash pickers who lives in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. Image by Dicklyon (CC BY-SA 4.0).

As for your mod here, I usually go out twice a week, circling my block to pick up trash off the street and clear the storm drains. I use a grabber tool and puncture resistant gloves to get the job done.

I plan to post my trash hauls here and I hope you do, too! Just be careful not to dox yourself :)

The "Mr. Trash Wheel" trash interceptor at the mouth of the Jones Falls River in Baltimore's Inner Harbor.
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80% drop in plastic carrier bags on UK beaches, finds new study | Countryfile.com (www.countryfile.com)
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Bristol Harbour clean-up group celebrates 10 years of odd finds (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Had to bust out the bucket for this one (slrpnk.net)
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Today's finds include:

A broken car mirror, whiskey minis, hookah supplies, latex gloves, packaging for socks, and a used diaper.

A 5 gallon orange bucket on grass filled with garbage
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What is Plogging? (www.plogging.org)
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Plogging Comes from the Swedish Term “Plogga”

Stockholm Sweden became the first city to host an organized “Plogga” in 2016. This event combined a jog, jogga in Swedish, with picking up litter, plocka up. Plogga is an association and popular movement where the activity itself is about picking up rubbish while jogging. It is also just as easy to walk, skateboard, cycle, swim or other. Plogging is a change of attitude and plowers are proud garbage collectors who do something for our environment and health before it is too late.

Since then, over 3 million people have participated in organized or solo ploggas. Every day, approximately 20,000 people plog in over 100 countries.

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Inaugural trash haul from my block (slrpnk.net)
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Today's finds include:

Minis (someone really likes sutter home wine, there was a trail of them), plastic bottles, fast food waste, face masks, blunt wrap packages (so many), cigarette butts, bottle caps, and a few socks.

Blue plastic grocery bag full of garbage, a trash grabber and gloves on concrete steps