r/DeTrashed

I'm currently on vacation in Sardinia and staying at La Maddalena island. It's a stunning island with plenty of beautiful beaches. Until you look closer and see it's full of microplastics. A couple of minutes from my hotel there's a small beach next to the road. No parking, so it doesn't get too many visitors. This evening I tried to do a clean up of a small part of the beach, but it felt pretty hopeless. The amount of microplastics is shocking. It's impossible to clean it all by hand. I filled one bag and will go back tomorrow during my last day here to fill another bag. It isn't much, but better than nothing and I focused on what's on the waterline so it won't get back into the sea and plastics which are harmful for animals like parts of fishing nets and bottle cap rings.

Every week, my small rubber stamp factory in Minnesota sends hundreds of pounds of clean, high-quality natural rubber to the landfill. It kills me. This is the stuff trimmed off the edges of our stamps. It's soft, natural red rubber, no dirt, no contamination.

I've posted before and gotten tons of great suggestions. I've reached out to every single one. Mulch recyclers, playground surfacing, crafters, art teachers, makerspaces, you name it. Nobody wants it. Most would rather grind up dirty old tires than take clean rubber from a stamp shop. I can't make it make sense.

It's free. You just pay shipping, which works out to about $1/lb. I'll ship as much as you want. Use it for crafts, gaskets, packing material, garden mulch, art projects, whatever. I just want it to go somewhere besides a landfill.

If this resonates with you, please crosspost it to any subreddit you think might want this. Crafters, gardeners, makers, sustainability, hobbies, anything. That's the real ask.

Email nic@unitystampco.com or DM me.

Cleaning up an old encampment and found some interesting books…The last book sent me 😂

Site with the books had fishing line all around its perimeter… guy was NOT ok…

There was also a VERY swollen iPhone I set aside and promptly forgot about….gonna find that tomorrow. We don’t need no fires right?

The video is from the one I just I started out of 5 or 6 sites. I’ll post before and after pics when the entire area is cleaned up in a few weekends

I don’t believe this was a recent camp. I think it cleared out in 2021 judging from the expiry dates on the canned food

Most of the canned foods was unopenedu, and in a big pile with 2x full containers of protein powder and a few bags of chips

Maybe the city forcibly evicted everyone in that big wave ahead of 2021 tourist season

IIRC there was a huge methodical dismantling of encampments all over the city - when that kid got caught by pepper spray crossfire during the protesting

… little Litterwalk to start the day off right … let’s DANCE!

💃🪩🕺

Any body got recommendations for something better than a 5 gallon bucket?

After dreaming of being able to return trash to its rightful owner, I was finally able to make it happen today. Or at least it's on its way.

I found this receipt on my route, and something told me to unfold it and look at it before chucking it into my trash bag. Lo and behold it's a weed dispensary receipt with a person's name and patient ID on it, plus their medical cannabis allowance balance. The name sounded fairly unique, and when I searched for them I got exactly one hit -- they are apparently the only person in the world with their name. Found their Facebook and their home address and phone number. There is zero chance I have misidentified the rightful owner.

They are far enough away that I can be certain this didn't fly off a trash truck through some crazy circumstance. They were probably in my area for work or maybe visiting someone they knew. Maybe it accidentally flew out their window as they drove by? That's the most charitable explanation I can summon.

If I bought medical cannabis and a receipt for that with my name on it ended up in someone else's yard, I'd want to know about it. So I did what my wife told me *not* to do (lol sorry honey) and I mailed the receipt back to its owner.

I'm on Cloud Nine. I'd buy a lottery ticket if I didn't already feel like the luckiest person ever. Thanks to everyone in this sub for being so inspirational!

Update: turns out I am willing to be weird and creepy if it means raising someone's awareness that their litter doesn't disappear when it leaves their possession. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I find that places surrounded by fences often have a bunch of trash trapped in them. Cleaned up this corner!

Is this a piece from bed frame? Looks like it's been here for a while...

Words that keep me going!

#MisplacedWaste #SmallTrashBigChange

#SmallBusinessOwner

#DoWhatYouLove

#LoveOurPlanet 🌎 #MakeADifference

Awesome when neighbors can come together to make things look nicer. Plus great exercise.

Met up with some friends to detrash the local bayou today. Brays bayou park, Houston Tx. About 11 total garbage bags filled. Can only post so many pictures.

I finally got around to setting up the entirely illicit and wholly bootleg Albany Marsh trash can and needle bucket shebang a goodly number of you were irresponsible enough to buy me. I don't know all of your names, but I do like the cuts of your jibs!

Now. Will this setup capture all the litter and needles at this site? No. Will it capture most of it, if we loosely construe the term? Yes. Like its red-headed stepchild up on Grizzly Peak, this can will agglomerate the trash. As I always say, agglomeration is 87% of the battle!

I also ogled the marsh in general. The site we cleaned last time is still pretty spotless, but the rest of the marsh could still use another cleanup or two. If you'd like to waste part of your precious weekend dragging trash out of a swamp for free, sign up on my website for the email announcements I've begrudgingly resolved to resume.

Finally, I'd like to remind everyone that all my shebangs are due to the fantastic example of the peerless u/pengweather, who serves as a model for how most humans should be. You are graciously invited to not wait for permission from someone like me to start a peng of your own. The world needs it!

This mornings 5k walk revealed three new seeturtle nests, so exciting 😃