Finding Nemo (plus broken chipboard, discarded boxes and scores of plastic bottles)

10 Goodgymers helped their local community in Liverpool
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Char Binns
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Chris Houseman
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Liverpool

Monday 24th August 2020

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The perfect 10 hit the streets tonight for some plogging in the sunshine!

Plogging is a Swedish concept that combines jogging with picking up litter = it has GoodGym written all over it!

On a lovely sunny evening, a group of 10 met up in Toxteth and set out on a 4km loop of jogging while cleaning up the area to make a more pleasant environment for all. The route took us on residential streets, over green spaces, through a playground and down an alley. In just one hour, we managed to collect 10 large bin bags of litter. Sadly, in some spots it felt as if we were only scratching the surface.

Liverpool is the city that we all love but it has a chronic litter problem, thoughout the city. We are playing a small part in trying to clean up the city's act, but really it would need a whole cultural shift and change in the way we see the streets and our environment.

Kudos to Chris who found Nemo!

Well done to everyone for keeping to the rather bossy pace I was setting for us, whilst still managing to pick up so much litter.

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