Picking up trash in nature

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I'll go first.
    I always take a garbage bag on hikes and pick up as much as I can. I've made a huge difference. Once while picking up trash in a creek a beverage can came flying down from atop a small cliff. I went up and saw some kids hanging out who didn't know I was down there. They were genuinely surprised when I brought the can up, and they immediately fessed up. Hopefully they remember.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >I always take a garbage bag on hikes and pick up as much as I can.
      if anons have one take-away from this thread, let it be this ^

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    i live in an area where its like half residential and half protected wetlands. a month after i bought my house they started building section 8 housing across the street, and now its full of disrespectful nasty mexican families who destroy nature. right behind the section 8 Black person housing is a swamp and a rainwater reservoir, with a trail cutting through it that connects to the only grocery store here.
    in just one year the mexicans and pajeets completely trashed this place. i've hauled out over 10 contractor bags full of beer cans. i've removed over 40 shopping carts from the pond and i'm not even half done. gallon bag full of heroin needles. for whatever reason these beaners play badminton out in the woods and there has to be thousands of birdies scattered about.
    i've been complaining to my local city council and started contacting federal environmental agencies to hopefully frick with my homosexual liberal city a bit.
    frick third world people.
    frick fake environmentalist lefties.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I feel your pain. I had a similar experience. In the end I sold my house and moved to a place where things were better. good luck anon.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        doing that after grandpops croaks

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      lmfao why do the mexicans love badminton so much

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        i was actually stunned by
        >40 shopping carts from the pond
        because that's precisely what gypsies do here
        rarely would have imagined subhumanness being this transcendental

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >the wanting comes in waves
          Sums it up.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I'm from South America and I understand how you feel. Every single campsite or interesting spot easily accessible by car is full of trash, low class people have zero conscience about not littering and not dirtying the entire place. My family owns some land in a beautiful mountain valley, which sadly got oversold with cheap small holdings that serve as summer houses (a concept similar to Eastern European dashas), the beautiful river beach started getting full of trash from these low-class people, them shampooing their hair in the river made it all foamy and shit. Me and my dad started doing rounds and harassing them, telling them in (more or less) aggressive tone to pickup their shit.

      One of the most baffling things I've ever seen was in a trail, a beautiful location with forests in the mountain, around 2hrs hike up in there was a rock full of leftist graffiti, with dozens of beer cans around. Like what compels people to do that? What do they achieve defiling nature like that? Some national parks around here are literally paywalled, the only way to stop this behavior is to tack on a $20 pp entry fee. Really sad.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        damn. they started paywalling local hiking spots here and it made a pretty good difference.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The fact that White people seem to be the only people that don't largely use nature as their own giant trash can was one of my first redpills. That and they're always the ones that help wild animals like during oil spills or floods.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >picking it up
    >for free
    but seriously, trash angels deserve all the trail pussy/bussy they desire

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >be me
    >good samaritan
    >think I'll pick up some garbage
    >grab a little piece of plastic sticking out from leaf litter
    >it turns out to be a sheet of plastic that pulls up the leaves and sticks, revealing a solid layer of trash underneath
    >this happens multiple times in multiple locations
    >indiantears.jpg

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I pickup trash and nature and litter everything I can in the city

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    sometimes I pick up your mom while I’m out

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I don't have too many pictures, but I have gotten into the habit of regularly picking up trash wherever I see it in nature.
    I always carry a roll of trashbags in my fishing bag, so whenever I go fishing anywhere I will clean up the spot I was fishing at of any trash or things left behind. It feels somewhat nice to see how much cleaner my favorite spots are as a result. In the summer I'll also pick up trash in the water, hanging branches as well as checking roots during low water levels. Usually it's mostly trash, but I do find the occasional lure which I often clean, resharpen and reuse.
    It adds up, probably collected about 60 trashbags last year from fishing alone. Some full, some half full. Picrel was during a time where I frequently visited a favorite spot, so it was only what would have gotten washed ashore whenever I visited, as the shore itself was free of trash after 2-3 trips.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    When I go out shooting, it's not uncommon to fill the back of my truck up with garbage ppl shot. Last trip was a fridge, mini fridge, dryer, about a bag worth of spent brass and shells.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      i collected two trash bags full of shotgun shells from a hunting ground once and barely made a dent in it. fricking ridiculous

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It can get insane. I usually bring a rake and a big bowl shovel to help.
        There is one local range that belongs to some guy, has it heavily gated off and he locks it up if people don't clean their shit. He locked it down for several months to the point a group comes in once to twice a month and does a HUGE clean up.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >I usually bring a rake and a big bowl shovel to help.

          oh good idea, i'll remember that

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    A heartfelt thank you to every one who does the deed and picks up after trashy people. May the wind always be at your back. Sleep well knowing mother earth loves you.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Behind my house is 600+ acres owned by a summer camp. They have a little lake with a trail that goes around it and a few camp sites around it. Recently one of the newer neighbors has placed his boat on the lake. No worries, I leave my Grumman canoe back there(with permission). However itscat one of the camp sites and 9/10 times I go back there he completely trashes the camp site with beer cans and litter, like pic related is how I clean it up and leave it in his boat. However this isn't all.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      So one day the stupid fricker left his goddamn boat in the water and it sunk. I eventually pulled it out with a comealong and an ATV winch and drained it after being approached by the summer camp owners to help them remove it. They did the legal route and gave a 30 day notice to remove this property from there property or be forfeited and considered abandoned.

      So a few replaced rivits and a little JB Weld patch here and there and Im now the proud owner of my butthole neighbor's boat. The butthole neighbor got the cops involved after he noticed his boat in my yard a few weeks later(even tried stealing it back). A long drawn out argument later between the cops, butthole neighbor, the owners of the summer camp and myself and I still kept the boat, then promptly sold it to a pawn shop for a cool bill.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >So one day the stupid fricker left his goddamn boat in the water and it sunk.
        I hate this shit so much, my parents live near a dead-end river branch and there used to be dozens of boats on it, a good bunch of which eventually sprung leaks and were just sort of sitting around half-afloat, making the place look like some kind of dollarstore ship graveyard. It got s bad that the local administration eventually closed off the entire branch for boating and now it's nice again. I feel like every single easily-accessible spot of nice nature just magically attracts lowlives.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          It's not feeling it's truth people are fricking moronic i hope they have all taken vax.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Holy shit, anon that's a hell of a story! Absolutely inspiring. I'm glad it worked out in your favor. Did you know he wouldn't get violent or are you always armed and ready?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        His property is on a completely different road from me but still boarders the summer camp, however on a direct path from my house it would be a 10 minute straight walk throught a few adjacent properties and woods to reach his property.

        I explained to him the sequence of events, but he's an entitled prick from Chicago who knows he fricked up after our rural forest cops took the side of the summer camp who did everything legally especially being generous enough to allow 30 days to remove his property from there's. Instead he let his boat sink over removing it. By helping the camp remove the abandoned property it legally became mine after said property owner gave it to me. Cops went easy on him saying he'd face trespassing, vandalism, and even a fine $500 for littering and any retaliation of any sort will be delt swiftly. He got a stern talking to and that's about it. I have trail cams watching my property so Im not scared in the slightest.

        If he wants his boat back the pawnshop has a $300 tag on it.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      https://i.imgur.com/UcnnFH5.jpg

      So one day the stupid fricker left his goddamn boat in the water and it sunk. I eventually pulled it out with a comealong and an ATV winch and drained it after being approached by the summer camp owners to help them remove it. They did the legal route and gave a 30 day notice to remove this property from there property or be forfeited and considered abandoned.

      So a few replaced rivits and a little JB Weld patch here and there and Im now the proud owner of my butthole neighbor's boat. The butthole neighbor got the cops involved after he noticed his boat in my yard a few weeks later(even tried stealing it back). A long drawn out argument later between the cops, butthole neighbor, the owners of the summer camp and myself and I still kept the boat, then promptly sold it to a pawn shop for a cool bill.

      https://i.imgur.com/DKg6HOs.png

      His property is on a completely different road from me but still boarders the summer camp, however on a direct path from my house it would be a 10 minute straight walk throught a few adjacent properties and woods to reach his property.

      I explained to him the sequence of events, but he's an entitled prick from Chicago who knows he fricked up after our rural forest cops took the side of the summer camp who did everything legally especially being generous enough to allow 30 days to remove his property from there's. Instead he let his boat sink over removing it. By helping the camp remove the abandoned property it legally became mine after said property owner gave it to me. Cops went easy on him saying he'd face trespassing, vandalism, and even a fine $500 for littering and any retaliation of any sort will be delt swiftly. He got a stern talking to and that's about it. I have trail cams watching my property so Im not scared in the slightest.

      If he wants his boat back the pawnshop has a $300 tag on it.

      Absolute hero. Choose an outdoors-related charity and I'll donate $100 to it that I also won't claim as a tax deduction, then I'll post proof.

      Saved picrel to remember always.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous
  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I always pick up as I go because the weight and bulk i minimal. I no longer live at home but I grew up on a river with heavy pollution but the fishing was great. I'd go out in my kayak once a month and fill up 2-3 trash bags with refuse just from the 1/4 mile radius of my house. Frick recreational motor boaters, boomer red necks that trash everything they touch, and the trailer trash up river that would just throw their garbage into the river instead of paying for pickup. Black folk may not be a problem here but spiritual Black folk certainly are

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I participate in local clean ups a couple of times a year. its the least I can do.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Any recs for pick up sticks? My backs getting to where it doesn't like bending over constantly.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I have an unger that I bought from home depot. It feels sort of cheap but it has picked up a ton of trash. Picker uppers are best used with 2 people: 1 to pick up the trash and 1 to carry a trash bag, 5 gal bucket etc.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I'm a fan of this style. Had the best luck with them when I was picking up trash at my job. They feel heavier duty than some of the others and much better grip than the ones with little plastic tips. The only downside is that the metal side bands can get tangled in trash, especially stuff like plastic bags or bits of rope. Also, a bit of advice, lubricate the pivots to make the trigger easier to squeeze. Your hands will thank you.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Get the Green one from Home Depot. And don’t forget a 5 gallon bucket so you don’t have to fiddle with a bag

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Use a old wooden broom handle or similar stick.
      Get a long nail long as your hand or so.
      Hammer it into end of stick.
      The head side of nail saw off or clip off, or hammer it to a point.
      A metal file to sharpen or scrape on stone, concrete.
      Its good to have simple tools.
      I keep one and pick up trash that wind blows on yard and along driveway to property, keep it tidy.
      You get tired of passing by the same trash day after day.
      Paper trash i get a pile and burn to ash

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I usually dedicate a couple days of the year for cleaning up local parks, trails, and campsites. Usually at the beginning of May and right after Labor Day. People leave so much disgusting shit like condoms, needles, dogshit, and covid masks. Even found a pocket pussy in the woods one time.

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Why is this a thread

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Why not? It has more to do with the outdoors than some of the threads I see here

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >is an activity
      >is outside
      i don’t understand the problem

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Because picking up trash feels good.
      Also because I'd get banned for starting a thread about shooting trashies in the face.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        This is why I litter, people really enjoy picking up my garbage for some reason.

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    There are 5 different courses upstream of me...

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I hiked down this cliff to a rocky beach yesterday and there were 50+ golf balls in the tide pools and among the rocks. I think someone was hitting the balls off the cliff and into ocean. What the frick is wrong with people?

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I used to find quite a bit of bank notes before money really started becoming digital. I also came across a perfectly good headlamp that I use. Have found other small treasures that I've sold. The rest of it is just boring true garbage but people lose good stuff sometimes.

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Hobos make tent colonies in the woods just off the beaten path. I'm always picking up hobo trash around the more popular trails around here.

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    i started smoking pipe mainly because i got tired of carrying smelly cigarette butts around

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    There’s a local day hike where the meme is to put a potato on top when you get to the summit
    People decorate these potatoes
    Usually pretty wholesome, but some things like googly eyes won’t break down in nature and the Sharpie ink worries me a bit too
    Back in 2020 when it was very obviously a bad idea to breathe others’ air, I started seeing pic related stuck in some of the potatoes
    I couldn’t always pack out everyone’s potatoes, but I prioritized the flags…because plastic doesn’t belong in nature. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Thank you for doing the right thing. Where is this summit?

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I was walking around the woods around a campsite after taking 5g of mushrooms when I saw a tree some buttholes had stuck beer bottles on the ends of all the branches. I normally don't like that shit anyway, but when I was tripping balls being all one with nature and shit it really pissed me off. I stopped what I was doing and hiked a good ways back to the car to get a tote bag and then back to the tree to pick up the bottles.

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    In less than quarter of a mile I filled three bags to the brim with plastic drinks bottles. Probably the wind carried them there as well as school children and women and certain types of workmen. They do actually degrade. They might survive neatly buried in a landfill but in a hedgerow they definetly begin to breakdown.

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Can we do a little talking about litter in general?

    I was in Jersey one time, and I watched some random brown person just throw his plastic shopping bag on the ground as he was walking out of a shop. Not a care in the world.

    What is it about people who litter? Why do they do that? They must know there are consequences- or do they just not care? Are they self-centered? I just don't get the thinking or lack of thinking required to litter freely and without a second of hesitation.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      They do it to spite yt. They KNOW it's wrong. They hate everything that whites love, including the earth.

      If they're actually unaware of the wrongness of littering, they're incapable of any morality. They should be put down.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's learned and/or untaught behavior. As a child you're taught to not do things by parents or figures of authority. But if you live in a shit-tier ghetto with no father and an absent mother you just throw shit on the ground.
      My apartment complex is very nice, but this one butthole just leaves newport packs all over the street that exits to the road from the parking lot. It's fricking adjacent to a giant-ass dumpster that's free for the whole complex to use.
      They don't even think about it, because they'd wade through garbage if no one else picked it up.

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Picking litter washed up on the towpath after the recent floods from my local river.
    Mostly plastic bottle trash which floats downstream.
    Though I was reading there are about 1 billion plastic bottles thrown away every day.
    At least my stretch of the river is litter free.

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Clean it up janny

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I always bring a garbage bag with me to pick up litter when I go for walks at my local lake.

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I live near a beach and pick up trash there regularly
    My hope is that being seen caring for the beach makes other people think twice about trashing it

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Thank you my friend.

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >state parks are fricking immaculate near me because people like to get hammered and continue to go back to the lake to enjoy it
    >only ever see trash in a trail that hunters or children were in recently
    I've never packed out more than a fifth of a grocery bag of other peoples' trash.

  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    No. the only rubbish I see is dirty b***hes toilet paper. I'm not picking that shit up.

    God I want to catch some disgusting bint pissing on the track one day. You all remember the gif of the old Asian man kicking some flasher in the ass.

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Boosin' and cruisin' in sport/utility vehicles is pretty popular where I live, so I can usually pack out a couple grocery store bags of beer cans. Not just inna woods either, you can see beer cans along most of the roads.

  31. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >mask in the middle of nowhere
    >thin gloves for presumably sharp/icky trash
    >but barefoot through all of it
    i am confusion

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I just pulled a random image off the net. I have lots of pics of my cleanups (including some with my pickup bed completely full) but I don't post my pics on the web. I go barefoot outdoors a lot but wear shoes on cleanups. Also, I'm unvaxxed and hated wearing a mask.

  32. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Grew up in israel (inb4 israelite) and the amount of garbage people would leave out was disgusting. Any spot would have at least some empty beer cans and piles of sunflower seed shells. The spots that got more traffic would have all that but +used diapers.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I wondered if Israel was trashy. I figured it'd be spotless for some reason.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >empty beer cans and piles of sunflower seed shells
      Well... I mean...

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