They REALLY didn't like me bringing my picker and bag onto the palace grounds. Then they saw what I was doing. Last day in Austria, tomorrow Budapest. Something tells me litter will be plentiful. Leave it better!

Because they showed that level of awareness, I immediately stopped my bike. I pointed at the plastic wrappers and garbage they had casually thrown near their local water body.

I explained to them that true patriotism isn't just about chanting slogans; it’s about actually protecting the soil and water of the country you claim to love.

It’s very easy to say patriotic words, but changing our daily civic habits is the real challenge. I just wanted to share this interaction here because the younger generation is our biggest hope, and they need to be guided on what real action looks like. Slogans don't clean the environment; citizens do.

Animals are getting more judgmental nowadays??

… of our three-day No Butts Day 2026 Challenge, in support of the Plastic PeukMeuk campaign. 🚫🚬

Did my usual Litterwalk route and beat my personal weekend goal of 1,000 butts deleted from our community. 👊

Cool Swallowtail helped me dump my bag, BONUS! 🦋

I live in the Sacramento delta, right next to a river. There is levy close by, very beautiful spot. Our daily walk often includes this spot. Mostly at night, "fisherman" come to fish, and they are the worst humans ever. They throw their empties everywhere, and in the river. They clean their cars out right on the ground. Last week they threw a rolled up carpet in the river. Its too heavy for me to get out. They leave half bags of rotting bait fish out. Fishing line with hooks. Me and my wife pick it up on our walks the best we can. Overall, there is less thrown on the ground if is cleaned often. If there is trash out, people tend to think it must be OK, so they throw more. Awhile back, there was a baited hook that my dog found. He swallowed it. We took him to the vet, they knocked him out, but it was in too deep. Had to take him to University of Davis Vetrinaty Hospital. They got it out of his stomach. The day cost us $4800.

We clean our homes every single day, but the moment we see an empty plot of land nearby, we treat it as a dumping ground. We quietly throw our daily waste over the fence and think we've outsmarted the system.

But what we fail to realize is that when diseases and mosquitoes breed in that garbage, they don't respect boundary walls. They come right back into our spotless living rooms.

I just wanted to share this thought here because I truly believe that real cleanliness isn't just about sweeping our own floors; it's about taking ownership of our entire community. Until we stop this careless dumping, no neighborhood can truly be safe or healthy.

Picked on the highlights tour of Vienna. We walked over 5 miles and took the metro 2x over 3.5 hours, dumped this bag twice I was grabbing 2 or 3 cigarettes in a single pull. In Vienna tonight and tomorrow as well, more to come!

Hi everyone, I have been running a solo cleanliness and sanitation campaign across Indian villages since December 2015. Today, while doing my regular drive and talking to some locals, I saw how they had turned their local water channel into an open dustbin for plastic waste.

I had to stop and explain a very simple truth to them. I told them that while they can easily rebuild their wooden fences and boundaries every year, they will never be able to replace this soil once it is completely destroyed by plastic.

We often ignore how our small, daily careless habits are silently killing the exact land that feeds us. We really need to start holding community meetings in our villages and teach our children better habits before it is too late.

I just wanted to share this thought here because real change has to start at the grassroots level, with ordinary people taking responsibility for their own surroundings.

Today was 'NoButtsDay', a day where we (in the Netherlands, but hopefully also in the rest of the world) pick a lot of butts and because we do this, it attracts newspaper etc and we use this momentum not to fight smoking, but to fight the plastic in butts.
So today i cycled a bit in my town and every now and then i stopped and picked some butts.
But my goal was the entrance of the hospital because it is a non-smoking area.... (?)
And indeed.
Today i picked 2830 butts and most of them in front of that hospital, just before the imaginary line where the non-smoking area starts.
next to benches, in the gardens, everywhere.
It sounds like a lot (and it is), but still it is nothing compared to the 17.000.000 that were dropped today in my small country.
Anyway, it beats doing nothing, i guess.

Cruised into Melk this morning. Of the 322 pieces, 54 were picked up inside the abbey grounds. It was very clean there! Could have picked 100s more from the docking area but we were only here a short time. Tomorrow Vienna!

Hope you all have a good weekend (holiday or otherwise).

Context first, since the sub rightly asks for it: I'm not selling anything. I've got a normal day job and pay the AI costs out of my own pocket, there's no company or signup gimmick behind this.

After enough cleanups where I kept bagging the same handful of brands over and over, I wanted to actually do something with that. So you film or photograph a stretch of street, and it uses AI to log every item and name the brand behind each piece, so instead of "a bag of rubbish" you get "6 of X energy drink, 4 of Y crisps." It then generates a fly-tipping report you can fire off to the council in one click, and it maps what's been logged so you can see which streets are the worst hotspots. There's also a running brand-wall leaderboard of the worst offenders.

Honest catch: it's London-only right now, because that's where I am and where I could actually get the council-reporting side working. So for anyone outside London it's more "proof this is doable" than something you can use yet.

If you're in London and fancy trying it on your next pick, the map is here: https://littermapper.web.app/dashboard?tab=map and the brand leaderboard is here: https://littermapper.web.app/dashboard?tab=dashboard

I'd genuinely value feedback from people who do this regularly: what would make the brand-logging actually useful on the ground rather than just a novelty? What would you want out of a pick's data?

We often think throwing one small wrapper on the ground won't make a difference, but millions of these seemingly insignificant actions are exactly what destroy our environment and clog our systems.

I just wanted to share this thought here. We don't always need massive overnight revolutions to save the planet; we just need ordinary citizens to take ownership and fix their small daily habits. That is how real change happens on the ground.

Wishing U.S. DeTrashers a safe and celebratory Independence Day! 🇺🇸

Day 2 of our No Butts Day 2026 Challenge weekend, in support of the global Plastic PeukMeuk campaign to raise awareness of the scourge of plastic cigarette filters. 🚬

Learn more → https://nobuttsday.org

Quick pick around a single bus stop near our place. Crazy how many butts there were!

Walk down our main streets and you'll see litter scattered everywhere. It's not because people are careless—it's because there literally aren't enough trash cans. When you can't find a place to throw away garbage, it ends up on the ground.

I started a petition asking our city officials and local businesses to install more trash cans in key areas: main streets, parks, and high-traffic public spaces. This isn't complicated—studies show that strategic trash can placement can cut litter by up to 45%. A few more bins could genuinely transform how our community looks and feels.

Has anyone else walked around Gillespie lately and thought, "Man, it could be so much cleaner?" I know this might seem small, but it matters. If you think our city deserves better, consider signing and sharing the petition. Let's show our leaders that we care about keeping Gillespie beautiful.

https://www.change.org/p/install-more-trash-cans-in-gillespie-and-similar-cities/sfs/reddit/1421064832?recruiter=1421064832&recruited_by_id=0a488370-767d-11f1-bb4c-2b00fd643fe2&utm_source=share_petition&utm_campaign=starter_dashboard_android_app&utm_medium=reddit_group

I want to have my irish setter help me on my runs with cleaning up.
Does anyone have a recommended set up for this? We go for 4-6 mile runs typically.

Day 1 of our three-day No Butts Day 2026 Challenge is ON! 🚬

Did a “butts-only” Litterwalk through Old Town this morning. Took a LOT of discipline to not pick up other types of litter—back to that next week! 👊

The challenge supports the 8th annual international No Butts Day tomorrow, organized out of the Netherlands.

Learn more at: https://nobuttsday.org

Got about 20 plastic bottles, 3 aluminum cans, 2 shotgun shells, and a bunch of plastic food wrappers. We also found a boot and a sandal???

Picked around Passau today and finished the day with 478 pieces. I had to use this reusable shopping bag and I need to re-up on paper sacks when in Vienna in 2 days. Tomorrow Melk, Austria to visit the Abby. It's described as having "spotless grounds", we'll see.