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Dutch Guy Was Annoyed By The Trash On His Way To Work So He Did This:
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Dutch Guy Was Annoyed By The Trash On His Way To Work So He Did This:

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Tommy Kleyn, a guy in the Netherlands, has showed us just how easy it is to volunteer in your community. He cleaned up a heavily polluted waterfront on his way to work, and all he had to do was wake up half an hour earlier every day until the trash was all gone.

After he posted the images on Facebook, he even got some help from his friends. All it took was filling up one garbage bag at a time until the work was done!

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“Everyday, I ride my bicycle to work along the river bank. It’s a nice route to ride, except for one part.”

“A stretch of the river bank is covered in plastic bottles and other pieces of (mainly) plastic trash.”

“This is the littered part”:

“The trash annoyed me very much, so, I decided to start picking them up.”

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“It took me about 30 minutes to fill one garbage bag with trash.”

“But, one bag doesn’t really make a dent in an area as polluted as this.”

“I vowed to fill one bag of trash each day I passed the spot.”

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“The area between the arrows was clean at this point. This is the progress made in only 6 days”

“I shared my experiences on Facebook and now, over 180 people ‘like’ the project”

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“A lot of people were all like ‘There should be more people like you!'”

“And there were: this is my friend Rick helping out”

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“The location was next to a bike path, and quite a few people got off their bikes and said what a great initiative this was.”

“The trash tried to communicate with me”

“The last garbage bag”

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“In 22 bags of trash, this is the only item I deemed worth keeping.”

“The idea is to motivate people to fill one garbage bag with litter each year.”

“It only takes 30 minutes, it really makes a difference and you will be amazed about how good you’ll feel afterwards.”

“An Eurasian Coot started nesting in the part which I cleaned.”

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There is a beast with heart of cold stone that dashes like lightning, shreds flesh from bone. // Bewitched by this beast, I fell to my knees. My mouth babbled madness and mumbled soft pleas. // I stared down the ravenous, gnashing dark maw of a cute cuddly kitten with yarn in its paw

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LotusEstilo
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9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No its not an "awesome idea" no clean our environment, you guys are just uncreative. This aint a very special idea. It should be normal.

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BobbieGroves
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9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Every spring in Vermont, we have Green Up Day, a Saturday when thousands of us walk along our roads and pick up litter. It's fun .

AnaliaRossato
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9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

should be at least once a week, but is a really good initiative :) we do the same here

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LotusEstilo
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9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No its not an "awesome idea" no clean our environment, you guys are just uncreative. This aint a very special idea. It should be normal.

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BobbieGroves
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9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Every spring in Vermont, we have Green Up Day, a Saturday when thousands of us walk along our roads and pick up litter. It's fun .

AnaliaRossato
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9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

should be at least once a week, but is a really good initiative :) we do the same here

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