Many of us like some hot action in the woods. Today we all got it. Six of us litterpicking in the cruising area.
Having met at the corner of the Snaresbrook Road car park we headed off into the woods, the intention being to empty the rubbish bags and bin and pick up litter on the ground and in the bushes.
There were plenty of tissues to pick up in some of the hotspots. Such a shame that some guys don’t use the litter sacks and bins around the place.
Hot work. And strange what we find in the woods. Maybe someone was looking for a long screw(thread)?
Between the six of us we covered all of the hotspots and the areas in between. It was good to be thanked by several passers-by for the litterpicking we do.
Having done all we could in those hot temperatures it was time to stop and have some refreshments. Cold drinks were appreciated!
After a bit of a chat we’d had enough of litterpicking in this hot weather and it was time to tie up the bags and place them at the roadside ready for collection by the Epping Forest Rangers.
Today we’d collected the equivalent of 22 of our small-sized bags.
Plus 34 collected by our Solo OWLS, giving a total this month of 56 bags of litter.
By way of an explanation, why do we refer to ‘the equivalent of our small-sized bags’?? When OWL started we used much smaller rubbish sacks. We still use them in the Hot Spots to make it easy for guys to get rid of unwanted sexual debris. When we changed over to the larger sacks for collecting litter (much easier to use) we wanted to be able to compare our current days’ hauls with previous sessions. To make fair comparisons we needed to use one measuring system. Hence the ‘small bag equivalent’. Or ‘SBE’ in OWL jargon.
Please note that we respect everyone’s right to anonymity and only show pics of those willing to have them posted. There might have been more OWL volunteers taking part than are in the above pictures.
No inferences should be drawn from anyone’s participation in an OWL litterpicking session.