Soldato
As saw the thread of magnet fishing, it spurred me on to write about this.
I'm part of a group that does group picks around Leicestershire. Don't do many as due to work. Always have the kit - bag hoop, bags, litter picker, hi-viz and gloves in my car boot all the time. So if I happen to drive past a load of rubbish and able to park nearby and got time, I park up and pick up the litter. Problem is I see roads with rubbish but unable to park or got no pavement and drivers drive well over the speed limit.
We do find loads of stuff when doing a group pick, esp round industrial estates/parks. Last week, someone found some window frames, I found a 12ft plastic pipe which was there for 8 years, according to streetview. That took some doing getting to it as it was behind a metal fence with 6 inch gaps. Had to borrow the group organiser's extra long picker to bring the pipe forward so could get to it under the fence and pull it from there.
When doing industrial estates, you find more stuff such as driver's tizer - bottles of urine from the lorry drivers as nowhere for them to do their business and then sling out the bottle. Then in the residential areas, always find a collection of nitrous oxide canisters
Strangest things I have found was a suitcase containing dirty underwear with a Sky+ box, a bag of unopened shopping - three months after the dates, a bag of crisps with something with Montreal Olympics (1976), a yellow sign mentioning some road closure 8 years previously.
If you are interested, ring your local council and some are better than others. My council don't provide hoops, pickers and hi-viz, but provide bags. Place them next to council bins. Of a different colour so bin men know its from litter pickers and not a resident dumping their stuff. Though the county council have provided the equipment and a couple of local companies have sponsored the hi viz.
I would advise everyone to download an app called Love Clean Streets. So if you driving or walking and see some flytipping etc - then report it on here. It will then send it to the council responsible for the area. Very useful in that sense as some parts near to me, I have no clue which council that part of land it belongs to. Also the same app can be used to report things like broken street lights etc.
I'm part of a group that does group picks around Leicestershire. Don't do many as due to work. Always have the kit - bag hoop, bags, litter picker, hi-viz and gloves in my car boot all the time. So if I happen to drive past a load of rubbish and able to park nearby and got time, I park up and pick up the litter. Problem is I see roads with rubbish but unable to park or got no pavement and drivers drive well over the speed limit.
We do find loads of stuff when doing a group pick, esp round industrial estates/parks. Last week, someone found some window frames, I found a 12ft plastic pipe which was there for 8 years, according to streetview. That took some doing getting to it as it was behind a metal fence with 6 inch gaps. Had to borrow the group organiser's extra long picker to bring the pipe forward so could get to it under the fence and pull it from there.
When doing industrial estates, you find more stuff such as driver's tizer - bottles of urine from the lorry drivers as nowhere for them to do their business and then sling out the bottle. Then in the residential areas, always find a collection of nitrous oxide canisters
Strangest things I have found was a suitcase containing dirty underwear with a Sky+ box, a bag of unopened shopping - three months after the dates, a bag of crisps with something with Montreal Olympics (1976), a yellow sign mentioning some road closure 8 years previously.
If you are interested, ring your local council and some are better than others. My council don't provide hoops, pickers and hi-viz, but provide bags. Place them next to council bins. Of a different colour so bin men know its from litter pickers and not a resident dumping their stuff. Though the county council have provided the equipment and a couple of local companies have sponsored the hi viz.
I would advise everyone to download an app called Love Clean Streets. So if you driving or walking and see some flytipping etc - then report it on here. It will then send it to the council responsible for the area. Very useful in that sense as some parts near to me, I have no clue which council that part of land it belongs to. Also the same app can be used to report things like broken street lights etc.