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Renaming Litter Picks as Pollution Picks.
“Litter picks sound too benign; actually what we're talking about is pollution."
Daisy Hutchison, Plastic Free HAckney
“'Litter' also frames the problem as entirely the fault of individuals behaving badly. Clearly that’s a part of it but it’s also a given that a % of throw-away plastics (etc) will escape the waste system and become pollution.
Companies continuing nevertheless to make and market these things are knowingly releasing pollutants.
Calling it by that name therefore places responsibility for the polluting problem on them - the polluters."
Julian KIrby, FoE
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