To anyone who was in the Chicago branch of DeTrashed, I believe the Meetup page got deleted due to the group not having a leader. If you try to look for the page, it doesn't come up anymore and says in my email it has been removed from the site.

If there's a plan to fix this, please tell. I heard that it costs money to keep a Meetup page running, so I think the group should move to Facebook.

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Here's the latest video from TrashMob.eco. Day 16 on the abandoned homeless camp: Let the hauling begin https://youtu.be/EyNr--Sp6F0

We did a short loop around a local park. Since it’s Sunday night, a lot of the trees were left with tons of wrappers underneath from birthday piñatas, along with the regular trash. Someone even lost a windshield wiper! This park has a lot of trash regularly and I couldn’t stop noticing on my last visit. So today, I brought my grabber and my bucket and let my kid ride his scooter for a while.

Here's the latest video from TrashMob.eco. Day 15 on the abandoned homeless camp: Between the rains https://youtu.be/JUSj4KseIpw

Just a random Saturday thank you to the whole global deTrashed fam, but especially the deTrashed mods. Being a reddit mod is not an easy task & there are lots of weirdos & scammers & crazies lurking around always. But the deTrashed sub is full of good people doing real good in the world. And just wanted to take a moment to say Thank You!

Thank you for making this a welcome & safe space.

Thank you for making the world better.

Truly.

A while back, I was wondering how much, in roadway length, would each person need to clean - if every 'able person' were to help clean up roadside litter.

One simple way to generate a reasonable response is to estimate the total length of roadway and the total number of 'able bodies'.

So I just asked Bard to get approximate numbers - and these were the two estimates and the one response number in roadway length that includes doing both sides of the roadway length:

• Estimated total global roadway length: 63,690,567 kilometers as of 2021
• Estimated 'able persons' today: 5.57 billion
• Response: only 36 feet of roadway per person

Note that I got to the able bodied number by excluding kids 0-6 years old, the elderly 70+ and the estimated 15% of disabled persons.

The roadway estimate is both paved and unpaved.

Any other factors you would recommend including in this rough calculation?

What could you do instead where you can do something good on the side?

I have been cleaning this park for past year. I had some extra time yesterday to dig out some trash from the bushes.

Walked some streets I don't normally hit. It was a gold mine!

https://preview.redd.it/owibzuy7ynpb1.jpg?width=769&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b3d58cfbbda937abfed70cd4f0afb6663e570f0d

Here's the latest video from TrashMob.eco. Day 14 on the abandoned homeless camp: The Second Pile https://youtu.be/KXvq-Wv61YA

Thank you for making your part of the world a better and cleaner place!

It doesn't matter if you pick up one handful of garbage or an entire dumpster, your efforts are recognized and appreciated by someone.