#streetclean

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

Join us this afternoon for making mobiles from waste at Maxilla Space, North Kensington @acavaflourish All these straws were collected from: 🇬🇧The streets of London 🇰🇭The beaches of Cambodia 🇹🇭The beaches of Thailand 🇮🇩The beaches of Indonesia 🇺🇸The streets of NYC 🇧🇷The beaches of Brazil Amongst others... #artfromtrash #beachclean #streetclean (at Maxilla Space)

Street trash art. All of this cutlery was collected from the streets of London (UK), Lille (France), Ghent (Belgium), São Paulo (Brazil), NYC (USA), amongst others. Some of it was recently dropped & others had been run over, stepped on & had already started to break down into tiny pieces to be washed down the drains, into the waterways & into the 🌊🌊🌊. Streets trash so easily becomes marine debris, don't assume someone will eventually come and clean it up. The council here in London spends a great deal on cleaning the streets (money they don't really have that could be used for other services or people in need) but even so many bits get missed. I often do a street clean right after the street cleaners have been and there are still plenty of plastic pieces the machines & sweepers have not picked up, particularly items like plastic cutlery that have been crushed into tiny pieces! #streettrash #streetclean #plasticcutlery #saynotosingleuseplastic (at London, United Kingdom)