This article was originally published in DIVA Magazine September 2019 I almost got in a fight the other day. I saw a woman drop a piece of rubbish out of her car window and I tsked quietly as I walked past on the other side of the road. Then I thought to myself, ‘Be the change you want to see in the world’, so I walked over and I picked it up, without acknowledging her and walked away. I went to a cash point just over the road and before too long I heard an ‘OI’ over my shoul

Have you ever used a litter picker? It’s phenomenal, your pinching ability and reaching radius is unrivalled, like a super hero. I recently bought myself one. I use it in a feeble attempt to lessen my guilt as I walk along public footpaths and watch plastic wrappers float past me. There’s nothing that will make you feel more guilty about being a human than watching a duck get bitch slapped by an empty Haribo packet. Today, I was out for a stroll with my litter picker, readyin

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