I am going to start the Putting Litter First series with a confession. You may find this hard to believe, but it’s time I got this off my chest:
I don’t pick up litter because I like to pick up litter. I don’t write about litter because I find it a fascinating topic. I don’t tweet or give presentations to community groups about litter because I think it’s relaxing. I would love to spend my free time in a very different way: maybe helping hedgehogs or promoting the work of pollinators, showing simple ways we can all reduce our wastelines, or perhaps just curling up with a good book.
It may be 1 April, but this admission is not an April Fools joke. I do all of these things—the cleaning, the writing, the social media—because I cannot just sit idly by while a beautiful country is trashed. But I don’t want to do it forever. more