#2minutestreetclean

Been getting a bit slack at documenting the plastic bags I collect for Prayer Flags. I'm still collecting just often trying to work out where I'm going to put these often pretty dirty plastic bags amongst my backpack of reusable nappies, containers of baby food, water bottles etc. I normally try to carry a clean-ish bag to put them in but sometimes I forget 🤦‍♀️ Being an eco-warrior requires great organisation at times! 😬 . . . . #plasticprayerflagproject #plasticbags #2minutestreetclean (at Alcântara, Lisboa, Portugal) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzOguYYn3AC/?igshid=msu91jvg8e2x

Plastic☹️- Built to last for ever but when it breaks is very difficult to repair & effectively immediately becomes trash. Encountered this scene on the way home meaning I had to do a quick #2minutestreetclean ✌️ . . In London you can pick up great stuff off the street. I have plenty of furniture aquired this way 🛋🛏🛁. If people are getting rid of something they often just put it outside & it's normally not long before someone comes along & takes it. I think that was the intention with these 2 plastic boxes (last photo) but somehow one of the lids ended up in the street & CRUNCH 🚗🚎🚙🚌🛵😞 Brittle plastic smithereenes 👎 . . When I saw this I hesitated, I had a hungry baby, needed to pee & was in a bit of a rush to get somewhere 🏃‍♀️... but I just couldn't walk on by 😣🙈 it took only a few minutes & hopefully prevented all these tiny little microplastics from being washed down the drains💦. It's not much in the grande scheme but this one lid could kill a few sea birds once in the 🌊 💀🕊😢It's always worth it!☝️I also kept a handful of the fragments to use in an art project (I'd have kept more but running out of storage) so most of this went in a nearby bin sadly. . . Something we can all do is try to buy less, buy things that last a lifetime, second hand is best, repair them when they break & avoid plastic if possible. In the long run it's cheaper than buying junk that's going to last a couple of years before breaking or needing replaced. #2minutestreetclean #trashtag #streetclean (at Canonbury) https://www.instagram.com/plasticprayerflags/p/BwcCbRLnRZ4/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1drfge6t3w1or

On my 5 minute walk home in Jardims, I decided to pick up some bits and pieces the gutter. I got some pretty funny looks from passers by. It's not unusual for people to pick up rubbish here but it it's mostly people living in poverty, collecting recyclables to sell for a little money. I suppose I don't really for the trash collector stereotype, so people were looking on in puzzlement trying to work out what I was doing. My hope is that it will make people think & start to see the litter around them and perhaps start to see keeping this planet clean as a collective responsibility. I could have picked up so much more with more time, a container & perhaps some gloves would have helped! At least this is a small reduction in the number of objects that will get washed into the storm drains in the next rain & make their way into the river... imagine if everyone did a little litter pick in a spare moment 💭🌎💚 #take3forthesea #2minutestreetclean #sãopaulo (at São Paulo, Brazil)

When it rains it pours here ⛈⛈💧💧. Like many city centres the streets are full of trash & people are so used to seeing it they develop a kind of litter immunity, almost as if people stop seeing it & just step over it, in a "not my problem kind of way". When the rains come down all this plastic trash gets washed into these storm drains & the problem goes elsewhere. No prizes for guessing where... #citytosea #2minutestreetclean #plasticprayerflags (at Jardim Paulista)

#Repost @sharkfest_uk (@get_repost) ・・・ Head over to @theplasticproject website - a genius idea of claiming the floating trash islands as a real country... submitted to the United Nations there is a limited time to make the Trash Isles recognised as a country and to do that, they need you to become a citizen💫Once recognised as a true country the UN are obliged to help clean us up!!! An exciting way to get involved with such an interesting angle on the plastic problem... #2minutebeachclean#theplasticproject #plasticpollution#ghostnet#fishingline#marineconservation#marineplastics#beachclean#litterpick#trashisles#beachcombing#litterati#take3forthesea#justgrabbits#cleanoceans#surfersagainstsewage#repurpose#reuse#recycle#beachclean#beachcleaners#2minutestreetclean#unlitter#2minutelitterpick#wethechange #pollution #gyres #pacificgarbagepatch #oceancleanup

#2minutestreetclean as we hiked Lough Bray (at Lough Bray)

'BEFORE DOWN AFTER FEATHER' I. #PICKITUP II. #BINIT Let's pick up our #downfeathers & keep our #streets #clean 🌱👊🌍💚 #wastelady #litterphotography #streetphotography #litterati #2minutestreetclean #klagenfurt #austria #igersklagenfurt #justgrabbits #1pieceofrubbish #throwitaway (hier: Klagenfurt)

'GOOD MORNING ICE CREAM ALIEN' I. #PICKITUP II. #THROWITAWAY the #CATCHOFTHEDAY Let's pick up our #icecreamspoons & #cigarettebutts & keep our #streets #clean 🌱👊🌍💚 #wastelady #litterphotography #streetphotography #icecream #2minutestreetclean #binit #litterati #cleanupvienna #wienstagram #igersvienna #wien #1180 (hier: Vienna, Austria)