For the past ten years, Andrew Mayers has picked up at least 50 pieces of litter a day, single-handedly removing 180,000 items from winding up in the ocean or landfill. Mayers feels he’s simply doing the right thing, but in the eyes of those around him, he’s seen as a weirdo. What’s up with the stigma around trash-collecting? See here what Mayers has to say about picking up other people’s waste in his free time.
‘I pick up plastic waste to save it from landfill. It’s lonely but worth it’
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