Challenge: 66 Days of Collecting A Piece Garbage Every Day 

I live in a house with a crossroad with a storm drain at the corner. Everyone's trash collects in the drain, especially after it rains. Each week, I clean out any trash or recyclables from the drain. My little part of cleaning up our planet. 😊

You are the KING of simple, clean, good living 💕 I am inspired to pick up rubbish in my own neighbourhood!

The planet needs more people like you. I'm so happy I've found your channel! You're great example for all of us.

This is volunteer month at my job and they just posted events for plogging, a combination of jogging with picking up litter (merging the Swedish verbs plocka upp (pick up) and jogga (jog). Over 100 people participated! Including me and my doggo. I hope many more continue doing this!!! ✌🏼💚

This is an inspiring and amazing idea! Thank you 😁

I noticed in your last video that you pick up trash daily and I was so excited when I saw you made an entire video about it! When you stumbled over your final boss, I had to smile a bit. I live in a big city in a neighbourhood where it is very common to see people of all ages, even little children, throw their trash into the parcs because they can't be bothered to walk ten steps to the nearest trash bin. Comoared to where I live, your streets looked like trash was never invented there! It is still nice however that people come together and clean up their space, even or especially if there isn't that much to begin with. I used to volunteer with an organization that cleaned up green spaces all around the city each week, but we haven't been allowed to meet for a long time because of the pandemic, and now only very few volunteers are left. However, your video inspired me so much that I cleaned up my neighbourhood quite a bit this morning! I usually have a lot of social anxiety, but collecting trash brought me such a feeling of accomplishment that I didn't even care when people looked at me weirdly. One woman even stopped and told me that she thinks I am great because I collect trash. That felt so good! I only could to it for two hours or so because of the heat and allergies, but I collected three big garbage bags and some larger items like a tire, toilet seat and even a small aquarium! It is insane what people will put in the bushes because they don't want to make the trip to the landfill. I just wanted to tell you how energized I was by your video and that because of you, another small corner of the world is a bit cleaner! I really hope, you keep this habit up and inspire more people to clean up: first theor romm, then their house, and then their neighbourhood :)

Great video! In the Netherlands people sometimes use a special tool to pick up trash. It's a stick with which you can safely pick up anything and not touch the item.

I love this. You made me think about my neighbourhood and my own space more with this one. I once thought of litter picking on walks but I totally forgot about it so thanks for this.

Hi from Canada! You inspire me so much. Your channel is really wonderful. 🙂 Wishing you continued health and happiness.

I'm working in a Boarding school and sometimes the Kids and I, we go on a walk, picking up Trash. They always like it and most of the time it ends up in a who-picked-up-the-most-trash challenge. I'm also picking up trash by myself from time to time while I'm hiking or so. Love your challenge, that's great. Keep going. Thank you

Cans and plastic bottles plus some glass bottles are not often thrown away in Germany anymore for years because you pay a refund on them which you only get back if you return them to any supermarket (return machines). Like for a plastic water bottle you pay a refund of 0,25 Euro cents. You would not waste it would you? There are even collectors who try to get extra money if the budget is very tight (elder people) or if they are homeless.

Thank you my friend sending love and happiness! 💚

I wish that there were more people like you in NYC.

Today I’ve started to pick garbage from my neighborhood in my morning walk! Feels so good! Thanks for inspiring !

I do this 4-5 times a week. I don't pick up one item though. I take a bucket, rubber gloves and a picker-upper and go along the road. It does make a difference. There is less and less to find. I need to expand my route to other parts of the neighborhood. it is satisfying. While I live in Brooklyn, I think of Japan as I do it.

I found your channel not long ago and I can't stop watching your videos. I will definitely join your challenge and start picking one trash item in my neighbourhood. You are such an inspiration!

This is one of your best videos! I hope that picking up the trashes would become a habit for everyone ❤️

I love cleaning my desk before I start to work everyday. Helps me focus on my task and avoid distraction because of dust or clutter. Nice job!

Nice! In Germany we did school trips with the purpose of cleaning the forest 😊. Very similar . I like the school videos where kids take care of delivering the lunch in the class from early age and clean together . That is really a great piece of sharing feeling.

So cool to hear you speak Japanese. I have so much respect for those who know more than one language. I’ve always wondered what it would be like to be able to go anywhere in the world and communicate with anyone. Thank you for helping to beautify the world, you are an inspiration for us all 🌱💚✌🏼🌎

7:35 you are sooo right 😊 love it💖

hi aki i love your videos, well made, calming and educational! i hope to be more like you, stay safe.

Why did you smell it tho 🤣🤣🤣 ? Seriously, I love this video. I always wanted to clean my city, or my favourite park but I am scared to stand out too much and look weird. In my country we don't usually do this except for special events

Good for you! I do this too, regularly; the vast majority of rubbish people toss is food/drink packaging. Very revealing.

Thanks Mr. Aki. Inspiring me… yeah, i need to do and challenge my self also!!! 😅

Make a new room tour and show everything including your kitchen with kitchen table and chairs. Also if possible count all the things you have in your apartment.

I feel u! Before I was studying in a univerisity in Tianjin, China, this university was so clean that when I moved to my actual university in Beijing, I got shocked and kinda uncomfortable, cause as u said, claleaning starts with u, ur room, house and then the environment, so if my environment is like that what would u expect about the dormitories? I cannot do anything about the old dormitory which wall are full of black fungus, but I am doing my best with cleaning, cause I live next to the street and the pollution is strong. Before I used to clean the road, but at some point I got exhausted, I am hoing to retake it again when I went out running. Thanks for sharing. A clean world wille make ppl more happy!

I like your way of thinking keeping things clean does change your mind set 😊💕

What an admirable challenge - I think I may try this myself for my own channel! I'm in Dallas Texas - it would be cool to see if other people in other locations all did this and see how much it spread. Again, awesome idea 😊 PS - I study sake and have always wanted to try habushu but they don't sell it in the United States. Hopefully one day Japan will open back up so I can snag some 😝

you are such a wonderful positive happy inspiration thank you!!! ❤

I think you spread a lot of good energy by addressing the trash problem! I will do the same on my local walks. 👍🏻

Hi Aki, I love your videos. I would be very interested to know your views about ikigai and/or how you became a primary school teacher if you would like to cover them in future videos. Thank you for your work. :)

Nice, I appreciate your effort sharing your initiative. Great! 👍

finally a challenge that is meaningful and good

Thank you so much for this video! I did the same thing when I lived in my previous neighbourhood. The road I was jogging on daily was full of garbage and it bothered me so much that I took a garbage bag with me and picked up all the garbage during my run. During that run, multiple people stopped when they saw me and actually complimented me that I was cleaning up the garbage. I was so surprised by their positive reactions that it motivated me even more to keep cleaning :) I should do it also in my new neighbourhood! Thank you for reminding me!

Plastic bottles remain a problem. Our country introduced a deposit/refund on those recently and other European countries have had it for years.

What would you do if you lived with someone that makes a room messy after you clean it? And then you clean it again and they make it messy again, so on and so forth.

imagine what the world will be like if everyone of us would do this

Thank you for the hard work and the inspiration…I’ll start doing the same! Just a few questions, did you pick the trash with your bare hands? Weren’t you afraid to get some kind of infection from it? I want to carry something to pick up the trash, but I don’t want to use a plastic bag (that would be a contradiction)…I’m not sure what could be more appropriate…do you have a suggestion? Thank youuu

I always wait for your latest video Love from Indonesia

I really liked your challenge..i will do it too..I noticed that when there is trash in some area and nobody picks it up, it is so easy to the pile to become bigger by time..I think that people excuse themselves if they throw garbage in a place where someone else threw his garbage before them..

Che fantastico il Giappone!!Una volta anche in Italia ogni persona puliva fuori la porta della sua strada,oggi l'incuria regna sovrana!! Grazie per il tuo onorevole impegno!!Ti adoro!👍👍👍👍♥️♥️♥️🙋

I didn’t want plastic to get in the lake where I live so started picking it up on my walks. I ended up bringing a bag so I didn’t have to keep running to the bins. I then started picking up other rubbish like bottles and cigarette butts so a larger bag and tongs were needed. After a couple of days the garbage man brought his truck to me as my bags got bigger and bigger. He gave me an implement to pick it up instead of my tongs so I didn’t need to bend over. People looked at me strangely so I started to wear expensive sportswear when I picked up. Then people started smiling and commenting and thanking me. Not quite sure of what the moral to this story is but in my country you get more positive feedback if you look wealthier when cleaning up in the parkway. I gave it up after a while as I began to get up later (also I began to see trash everywhere I went as I was more aware of it) but you have inspired me to do it again.

This was a great video to watch. I think it was a great idea to do this challenge. I’m thinking about trying this challenge.

Anyone has the ability and power to change the world by performing an act of random kindness. Thank you for all your ARKS (acts of random kindness)!!

I live in the USA and people have little respect for keeping the roads clean around here. It’s sad. The area around my apt complex it is becoming more and more trashy. I’m planning to start doing this on my daily walk. It’s so gross. I could do this for years and still find trash 🙁.

I wish I could do that in my neighborhood, if I do I might fill the whole garbage truck in just for a day. Thank you for inspiring me to become consistent in minimalism. You're truly an inspiration.

Another RU-vidr, Bunny, started something called Trash Tuesdays asking viewers to spend 30 minutes picking up trash each Tuesday & send in a photo of how much you picked up. All those photos are organized by date of Tuesday to show the impact her viewers have. And some else taught me to spend 10 or 15 minutes picking up trash upon arriving at a campsite so that 1.) you can enjoy the cleaned site while there, and 2.) you “leave it better than you found it.”

Good job! Please don't smell mysterious beverages..could be toxic. I pick garbage on all my walks. I live in the country 2 miles from the city . I find beer cans, cigarette butts and fast food containers. The garbage is a hazard for my animals and the area looks so much better when things are picked up.🥰

It's beautifull what you accomplished! Sadly I cleaned a river once, it had run out of water because of the trash, and people did the same thing again and again... I clean their trash but they always make it back even tho there are giant signs that say,, Dont throw the trash in the nature". Idk what to do.. I honestly feel like I should give up because they are so filthy and disgusting... I found many things that were thrown onto the river and it makes me sick.. I know that what I do makes a change but I'm still young and my parents get tired of driving me there(it's far away in the forest) to help.. They say I'm not meant to clean their trash.. They are right but my heart breaks..but I can't do the same thing forever.. I have many things that stop me from going there especially the big distance. But that place was so beautifull when i was young and it brought me joy. After people found that place and it became popular, they slowly destroyed it..

I love you maaaan! Keep sharing that such a good and needed attitude! Thank you for your work. Greetings from Poland. 🤩

I think the same kind of trash grows togheter because is the same person throwing it away... Nice video. Many times I do the same, is overwhelming the amount of garbage bags you can fill in just one spot!

I too pick up trash on my walks with the dogs. I don’t like walking past the same bits of rubbish day after day. It makes me sad to think people have so little idea of the repercussions of their thoughtless actions

Great job! Yuck, pretty sure the bottle with mystery fluid was probably urine. That’s what people do here in the US. I probably pick that much up out of my yard or driveway on trash day. 🤢 I wear gloves, use a small rake and a dustpan.

I live in Finland and in the spring I clean the nearby forest and the environment where I live :) I can say that weird stuff can be found but mainly plastic and masks in a couple of years. Cleaning makes one feel good and it’s nice to visit your favorite forest the next time you’re cleaned :) mother earth is important!

Thanks for reminding me to clean my room. It's well overdue... I also really like your challenge, perhaps I'll clean up trash in my neighborhood in the future, too ^.^

I love your video. Thanks for helping the world more beautiful. Have a wonderful day guy !

el verte recoger basura me emociona y me hace más feliz, es algo que quiero intentar, gracias por la motivación y espero que más persona lo adopten, creo que es una gran iniciativa!

I live in one of the most messy parts of London. Every time I take a walk in my local park, I always remove a few items of trash but the next day I come, there are more. It feels so helpless sometimes!

Excellent video! I live near Seattle Wa USA and will try this in my neighborhood.

Yes. As an American I have the impression that trash wouldn’t be thrown in nature. But not surprised. I lived in the Rocky Mountains… and would pick up trash on walks. It feels good and the right thing to do… until it is a burden. The town in Mexico where I am … has a handful of town workers sweeping and cleaning by hand. I admire the town effort… and success. Snake saki???

Japan is really light at 5 or 6 in the morning! in England for at least 6 months it's not light before 7 and in the middle of winter it's closer to 8. of course in the summer it's super light... at 4.... but the big change doesn't make for a consistent time to go out... :/

That’s amazing and a great thing to do. I often pick up trash here in New York. Sometimes I feel overwhelmed 😢 your video just motivated me again 😊 thank you!

The next challenge should be making things utilizing the trash into usable things for your everyday life. One or two things from each trash item

Hi Aki, I’m so interested in your activities videos, there are a lot of good learning points about Japan, I have request to you, kindly please share about how Japan’s people do their discipline job, I really interested japan’s work ethics,, thank you,, warm greeting from Indonesia 😁

I will start this too while i walk my dog in the morning

I do this once in a while in my local park. It's very clean but you always find bits of paper and a bottle or two. It really makes me feel good to do it. Also, trash attracts trash for some reason. I guess if people see something on the ground they think it's OK to toss whatever they've got in their hand.

I love the video and the analysis of what is typically discarded. Very admirable effort! I believe this is also very popular in Europe. They call it "plogging".

Hi. I'm from Iran. Recently moved to Japan ( Tokyo), ganna be here for 3 years. I've been watching your videos way before arriving here. Good job man. Keep going! Gambatte! I'm totally in for the challenge. By the way, where can I get a paper bedside light shade like yours?! Arigato gozaimasue!

Great video! I live in the city, next to the river Leen. Sadly, folks throw rubbish in it and allow their dogs to fowl the streets. Very sad! 😢

You're awesome. I love your channel 😍

This is so motivating... someone just threw a big carpet and pillow out of their balcony... now it's laying next to mine since 4 days with rain and everything.. and I've just been annoyed about this. But now i'm like... yah... why don't I just throw it away if the other person failed to do so... It doesn't need to lie there... I can pick it up too. Thank you! 🙏🥰 Also... I didn't know about snake sake... not sure if I wanted to tho xx But it's a thing I guess..

Great idea! I will try to do it myself :)

Good idea!!!! We can join to it in our countries. To say true, i sometimes do the same. But never think to do in such a way... now i know🙂

Your videos are so fun to watch! Love your ideas! If there are more people like you, the world would be a cleaner place! 👍😊🌎

At my previous job I could take lunch time walks and made it a point on by way back to pick up garbage. It felt good leaving the area a bit cleaner with little or no effort. I remember reading how Prince Charles taught both William and Harry to pick up trash when they were out on their walks. It was good to learn, no one is too important to pick up trash!

Love ur attitude

Amazing challenge, maybe I try it too

I love this! Thank you for idea ❤️

Great and inspirational idea. You even made an very interesting video out of this kinda simple challenge. But I can't stop thinking that snake sake is really weird!

Great video!

I would like to do the same.but here is not Japan ,people love beauty but they also leave waste in nature.but I will try my best for keeping our nature beautiful and clean

Hola, gracias por el video, excelente tu desafio, y para todos lo imitemos. Gracias saludo

I will do this too!!

Congratulations on your Initiative!! I hope i could do it here in Brazil!! I ‘ d have to quit my job!

Hi Aki! I love your videos but I have to suggest you to use gloves to take trash from the street. You know, especially with mask you should be careful. Please, listen to me and even you stay safe

Well done you, that’s fantastic. Lol pretty sure that wasn’t pop in bottle!! In Canada we get money return for recycling do you have that in Japan? That terracotta jar is beautiful.

We do this sometimes together with our 4 years old son. We take a big and robust trash bag and a garbage picker (don't know if this is the right word 😅) Some days, the bag is full, before we leave our street 😭

Thank you for this video, Aki! I wish I could live in a place that treated the environment better. We are all stewards of the planet, and it's only going to be as clean as we make it.

Thank you for the inspiration. Keep it up. I would like to do this in my town as well. Let’s all do it together. If each person picks up 1 trash that’s a big difference already. 👍🏽🌎

Can u use pot for plant outside?

Realy intresting challenge. I dint thougt there would be so many plastic bottels. In germany we have a returning system, where you pay a little more and when you return the bottle you get that money back. It dosent always work so people would still throw the bottels away. But I realy apreciate this return polecy.

Oh I wish it was as clean where I live, unfortunately people just throw everything on the street because they have no respect. They even pick their dog poop up with a plastic bag and instead of throwing that bag in one of the many trash cans, they just throw it on the sidewalk. :( When I was a scout we had events where we cleaned a small area, but most of the time we could only pick large items, because there was so much trash that we never had enough time to clean it properly during the event. Most items were cigarettes and beer bottles/cans.

Someone get this man a bag!! But seriously good job though

thr is such a underrated channel

Looks like someone was flytipping :( big piles of rubbish tends to be people taking and emptying things using their vehicles

Love your stuff kick on love it

Yes, I need to clean my desk.

Nicely done! I hope you inspire others around the world to do the same!

I love this!