Vape Up Or Ship Out

A couple of glorious GoodGymers set out to pick up all of the litter they could manage in the space of an hour, which is a lot as all folk know who know owt about GoodGym members' litterpicking abilities.

There were a lot of loud roadworks going on on the A6133/ Broadway which made chatting somewhat difficult but we managed somehow.

We had a competition to see who could find the 'best' bit of rubbish... James had slim pickings with the best item being a colourful flashy vape pen. Kate didn't find much noteworthy either. Along the same lines as the vape she found a full bottle of an energy drink. Both items surely aimed dubiously at the younger audience. Who won best find of the night?!? We'll have to find an external adjudicator!

More haste, less waste!

Whilst picking on one of the large grass verges at the top of Racecommon Road we were approached by a couple of people who had lost a key somewhere on the grass. We agreed to scour the area and let them know if we came across them. Sadly no lost items were located, just the usual bits of misplaced waste. After this area was clear the next and last area on the cards was the wasteland just a tad further along. Here we were graciously thanked by a walker who was impressed by our efforts. I gave them information about GoodGym and encouraged them to join us in future... always recruiting me!!!

After a good hour of picking and with bags-a-bulging we each searched out a bin to deposit our bits into before callingh it a day and heading back to stretch off. We were lacking the purple sacks (that you can leave next to bins to be picked up without it being logged as flytipping) tonight so had to fit all of the rubbish picked up into roadside bins.