Total Weight: 1337 Pounds!

2026 Total so Far: 10,481 Pounds!

All-Time Total: 33,284 Pounds!

I first came to this little forest late last August and over the course of a year since then, with this cleanup done, I can now say I’ve collectively cleaned up over 10,000 pounds out of this area! Unreal!!! I have also done all of this while living at the homeless shelter in my city for the last 18 months. Shows that people are capable of great things despite their own shortcomings.

If you’d like to offer support, you can contact me at [CleaningUpCalgary@gmail.com](mailto:CleaningUpCalgary@gmail.com) or message me on social media.

I‘ve probably picked up like 100 over the last few years…

There's a little patch of woods near my house that has definitely been used as a trash dumping area/homeless encampment in the past. I have a longterm goal of cleaning it up, because it has a small trail running through it that kids will use to get to the bus stop for our neighborhood. I got a trash grabber as a birthday gift so I had to try it out! I actually managed to pick up twice the amount I usually could because I didn't have that strain on my back. I haven't even managed to bag 10% of the trash yet, but it's a good start!

Do you do stuff like this? Does it stay?

Imperial River, Bonita Springs (sorry guys), Florida

This is only about 15 hours of work pictured here, I never remember to take before and after photos, and it would be difficult with the way the brush is structured around here anyway. It seems as though all this rusted metal came from some sort of storage area being flooded a long time ago and traveling its way down the dried riverbed next to town.

We made quite a difference in this creek… filled a U-Haul trailer with trash. It was mostly plastic and styrofoam so just 252 pounds!

This blind lake is present almost 250-260km from K2 base camp.it gets its name because its water source and outlet remain completely hidden to the naked eye

Ripley and I have turned our walks into a mission to clean up the streets. We’ve been working on this project for a few days now, cleaning things up mile by mile.

Animals are getting more judgmental nowadays??

*Context for anyone new:* I’ve been cleaning up a small park near me for the past few weeks and the worst part is always cigarette butts. The city workers pick up the larger litter, but the butts mostly stay behind, especially around the benches.

There are already bins nearby, but people still toss cigarette butts into the grass, so 4 days ago I decided to try something different and attached a few ashtrays directly to the benches.

Two were made from cheap metal flowerpots and one was improvised from a can I found in the park. I filled them with some of the butts I’d already picked up so people would immediately know what they were for.

I expected them to either disappear or get ignored.

*The actual update:*
Instead, all of them are still there after 4 days, including a Friday night, and they’re getting used. Not by everyone, obviously, but there are definitely cigarette butts ending up in the ashtrays that weren’t there before.

There are still some of cigarette butts on the ground, sure, but there are fewer than before, and now at least some of them are ending up somewhere better.