Attention All Litterwalkers!

in breakfreefromplastic •  6 years ago 

The Story of Stuff Project is organizing a global clean up and brand audit of plastic waste! September 10-16, you can join, organize, or do an individual brand audit where you live, and help hold the manufacturers accountable for the waste their products generate.


video from The Story Of Stuff Project on YouTube

Basically, it means that you do a litterwalk, and keep a log of all the plastic trash you find, such as what brand it is, what type (food packaging, etc.), and report the information to tSoSP. You can also tweet the companies if you want - I love their examples that say things like, "Hey, company, is this yours?"

If you have friends or family who admire you doing a #litterwalk, but won't join you because touching trash grosses them out, maybe you can recruit them to be your log keeper and write down the info while you walk!

You can find information about the project here: https://storyofstuff.org/blog/the-new-strategy-to-hold-big-plastic-accountable/ ...and about doing your own mini clean up apart from big groups here: https://storyofstuff.org/uncategorized/mini-brand-audit-a-how-to-guide/

I know there are a lot of litterwalkers on Steemit, so I just had to share this project! I'm going to tag a few of you, no pressure. 😉 @hickorymack @neilur @davedickeyyall @lyndsaybowes @khackett @tobixen

Have a great day! 💙

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Alright my dearest friends @phoenixwren, we will always do it to safe our beautiful world to keep beauty always without all of dirty thrash anywhere💪 create this project together to keep clean our earth and make it smile with our acts😉

I love that thought - making Earth smile with our acts. :)

Hi Phoenix. Check out the @cleanplanet project - it gives the opportunity to earn while you litterpick 😊


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I put it as one of the tags so that their people can find this info, too. We might get a bunch of Steemians on board!

Great initiative Phe! I hope i can get myself to get involved. I've noticed the trash build up so it's time to get the gloves on again. Thanks for always being a great #ophumanangel ❤🎈❤

You too, Jill! <3 I'm due to do another walk as well, it's been a couple of weeks. :)

My oh My @phoenixwren I think you have just become my best steemain buddy, I have been looking for something like this on the net for a little while now.
there is a group of us who once a month go and litter pick in the areas that make our area look pants, and you should see the amount of waste that we collect, and that is from people just throwing stuff out of there car windows.
We have a pond like 2 minutes walk from our house with a main road next to it and this is one of the places we walk around to collect the plastic from, we don't want it to destroy our wildlife and it also makes the area look better than what it is too.
I admire the work you are doing. keep it up :D

That's awesome! I've done a handful of litter walks so far. You should make a post about yours and use the tags #litterwalk, #cleanplanet, and #ophumanangels so more people can see it and be inspired! :)

I didn't think at the time while i was doing it. It was something that I did and really I didn't think anyone would be interested in.
We are planning on doing another one this weekend. maybe I blog about that. :D

Please do! I'd love to see and support that!

I will do, it has a few things depending on it though, weather and who is joining me, the lady who started it up text me the other day to say that she was ill and it might not be a possibility.
I have just been down to the local ponds with the kids today and where we made clean is ruined. even the water has a silk like oil substance on it and it smells really bad.
It didn't stop us from catching some sticklebacks. we have rehomed them into our pond in the garden for now. (kids Idea haha)

Oh no! Where are you located? Are you in the red tide area?

Oh no! Where are you
Located? Are you in the
Red tide area?

                 - phoenixwren


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Last year we organized a beach cleanup here. We gathered a mountain of plastic and other garbage and I was so proud of the work we had done until the municipality came around and burned the trash! All that pollution up in the air that we breathe!

Yeah, it's kinda damned one way, damned another way... but at least that way the wildlife wouldn't eat it. This is why I try and be as zero waste as I can, though. In Colorado they just landfill everything, which releases methane too.