365 Sustainable Decisions Challenge

Yesterday, I've done a crazy experiment with a fellow litter-picker - I laughed myself to tears! 🤣 But it worked exceptionally well! This is what we did: When we go litter-picking, we find a lot of cigarette butts. Picking them up is very worth it: on butt can poison up to 1000 L (264 gallons) of water and can take up to 10 years to degrade. But picking them up one by one is very cumbersome. That is why we came up with the idea to use an old vacuum cleaner. And gosh, sucking them up is so much faster! It even worked off the pavement! This means we can make a bigger positive difference faster. In this video, you can see our experiment in action: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VoDhSDKrZks The setup was not ideal but as it was so promising, I'm ready to level this up. I don't know yet how, but I'm sure the answer will come. 😄

  Just before Christmas, I asked my city whether they can place a new waste bin – I’m super happy they did! This is what I asked and their replies: “Dear Mr ... I received your contact details from your colleague because I have a question regarding a waste bin. I am a co-initiator of the Sch(m)utzengel and am driving this citizen initiative to free our city from litter and make it shine even more. As part of our weekly litter-picking get-togethers, we have noticed that there is always a lot of litter on the track from the railway station, along the district administration office, to the new bridge. As there are now even more people passing there because of the new bridge, my question is whether it would make sense to put a waste bin along the track, for example, next to the bench. What do you think? Kind regards, Erlijn van Genuchten” I got a very friendly reply back: “We are happy to support your initiative and place a bin there. We are also interested in a clean city and are grat...