Picked up some rubbish on the way for a coffee with my Aussie cricketing friends

Here we are in London! First impressions tell me (at least in Isleworth), there is an awful lot of rubbish in the streets and they let the grass grow quite tall, and when I say grass, it’s grains like a wheat or barley! This verge below would be providing food for insects and birds, and is much better for biodiversity than a lawn. The locals tell me this is a council failure….but I like it

Off on my trip to the UK! Singapore is renowned as a very progressive city environmentally. 3 types of recycling bin, and I’m sure they actually do the recycling.

Another instance of people eating their KFC food and then just leaving their rubbish on the street. Happening all the time in my neighbourhood sadly. Ended up collecting two bags worth of rubbish - mostly fast food wrapping, plastics and cigarette butts and boxes. I read the latest KFC Corporate Sustainability Report. I wonder if companies like KFC would be open to having their staff clean up their local areas on a regular basis??? Would be good marketing and demonstrate their impact.... Food for Thought.....

I used to think that most of the rubbish I saw on the streets had blown out of bins, or was accidentally dropped. Sadly, time and time again I see the discards of whole meals from the KFC, and containers from Starbucks, where people park their cars, consume the food, then leave their rubbish 😔So sad. I repeatedly pick up the rubbish noting how grass cutters just mow over the top helping speed the creation of micro plastics….and on cue!!! A ride on, mowing grass that doesn’t need mowing, goes straight over the top. Wrong on so many levels 😢

Revisited the biobasin, removed a shopping bag of rubbish washed there after the rains, watered the seedlings and pulled out 50+ baby glycine vines. It’s looking really healthy ❤️

Watering the shrub tube stock again on my walk. The silky oaks do like lots of water.

Down at the creek and noticed an outbreak of Singapore Daisy...looks pretty but overgrows plants and smothers native vegetation.. l will need some help to get this removed.. Please reach out of you can help.. Location Wishart..

Planted 10 native shrubs on the Easter weekend, some weeding.

Invasive vines are everywhere in Brisbane, but these ones on Padstow Road were annoying me every time I drove past them. The trees had been deliberately planted, and some weeds had recently been wiper snipped. The Lilly Pilly and Eucalyptus now have a second chance!

Planted a Banksia and a Brisbane wattle in Skyview biobasin. Glycine has started to infiltrate the bed of Lomandras, so spent 45mins removing most of it. You can see the pile of removed glycine in the second pic

My family are spending two weeks in Vietnam. Our transportation has been walking, buses and boats. It has been appalling to see Waterways, roads, pathways and open vegetation/forest littered with plastic bags, plastic water bottles and take way containers etc etc. I am finding the main issue is that travellers can’t drink the local water due to the health concerns and then having to buy huge amounts of single use plastic water bottles. It’s hot here too. In two hotels that we have stayed in we have been able to boil the water and use our own insulated water bottles that we brought with us to drink from. We say no to plastic bags and limit buying packaged items. At bus stations we have seen plastic coffee cups, plastic straws, plastic lids and then a plastic bag. If u buy more than one plastic bottle they give u a plastic carrying handle. This is the resources and education the local people receive about plastic. The government is not pushing enough for recycled items or recycling plants. It would take years and years to clean up this country I have read articles that local people are aware and receive money when they collect plastic from their streets. Hopefully there is some change happening

Planted 2 casuarinas, a Brisbane wattle and a banksia in the biobasin, replacing those that were killed by the glycine vine. Also removed some glycine regrowth, must have pulled out 100plus baby vines by the roots as well. No poison used 😊

Cleaned up cigarette and coffee paraphernalia around my local bus stop

Spent 15mins removing glycine from the pathway near the kids

I had 15min to kill waiting for my friend to arrive for our afternoon catch-up and walk. Cut away the Balloon vine smothering a wattle, and removed Passionfruit vine from another 4 trees including the young brushbox in the centre of the second pic. Council contractors have poisoned along the paths, but many vines remain in the trees ☹️

A huge weekend. Massive clearing of long grass by hand with an old Cane Cutter blade. Then planted over 60 trees. The aim was to help our mate Jules stabilise the sloping land beneath his pool

Did another 30min on the pathway. Halfway done. Can you tell where I got up to in the first pic??

Glycine regrowth removed from the lomandras and Eucalyptus tree. Roots removed, no poison required!! Looks good in the before and after pics below.

Glycine vine is over growing these lomandras and the biobasin opposite. I can sort out the path, but will get council to do some heavy lifting in the basin. We can then maintain 😊