I loved every bit of this! The kids and the young people picking up the smaller plastics as well as the big obvious pieces, the fun, the music. Thank you for joining in and sharing Nicola!
I love the fact that mudlarking is actually a fancy way of picking up litter.....really old litter. The Thames is such a treasure and needs to be cleaned as much as possible. I have noticed in other mudlarking videos, all the large pieces of metal that's scattered around, can't that scrap metal be recycled? Great work on getting the message out.
Loved this Nicola! We have been going out with our fishing magnet that we just got here in New Zealand.. but our local river is so clean and New Zealand doesn't have a very long history of European settlement so not a lot of rubbish to collect or special historic things to find. Thanks so much for sharing people caring about their waterways!
Great job everyone on picking up all that plastic and other trash! I enjoy environmental cleanup when I was younger my friend and I would walk miles with trash bags and pick up garbage in was very peaceful and calming. Thanks for doing your part and continue as long as you can ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💜
They do really great work!! It’s just too bad people can’t put the empty bottles in a recycling bin around so that it makes it easier on the environment. Great to see this being done!! Thanks Nicola for introducing us to these amazing volunteers!!😍🥰🩷🐚
Wow! As an American I just loved this! My son and I always had bags in our tackle boxes. When we fished we always collected trash. Sadly we needed bigger bags at places. Good for you that you got involved!!❤
We have clean the beach days here in Oregon, too. It's wonderful to see the number of volunteers that come to help keep the beaches clean. Thanks for sharing this video.
Thank You so much and to all the River Keepers. I live in a state where fishermen are most anywhere running water is. I’m always amazed at the litter from these (not all) fishermen and women. Fishing lines , paper trash and just litter that is left or not picked up. Adults doing this.
Hey Nicola ✨️ Cleaning up the planet is a monumental task, given that only a small percentage of plastics made in the 50's has been recycled ♻️, let alone everything produced since. Let's hope the experience at this event will inspire every one to change or improve the way we use and dispose of plastic . Mixing it up on the channel is very much loved, and the hard work appreciated. I was hoping to make it down from Norfolk for a couple of Thames festival events, but alas my calendar is filling up and my two visits are for long booked concerts. Stay Safe and Happy in all your ventures 🫶🧡☮️🕊☯️🙏
Lovely to see everyone who participated in such an important part of caring for our world. Wonderful to see young people involved and educating others and others coming out to help and learn.
Thanks Nicola for bringing this video, as every time I go on a riverside walk, there is a certain part near the Westin City Hotel which has so much plastix, bottles etc washed up, it is lovely to see Thames 21 making a difference to the foreshore, even thou it should not be that way if people can find a bin or recycle their waste, would have loved to come, but it look like you were down the river further on than we go, thanks again
So good to see you encouraging the younger ones and doing your bit to clean up the Thames.This looks to be very organized and analytical .pickup, well done,I particularly like that device that holds the collection bags open. . I was wondering if you found more historical finds that you take home now you have more space in that top drawer and material for further research.Well doneNicola and Thames 21 .If we all do a little bit it soon makes a considerable amount and a cleaner rivers good for wildlife .It is encouraging to read that the Thames is a lot cleaner than in times past and the river is attracting more wildlife particularly aquatic..I know you can't be everywhere but I just knew you'd be in the thick of something like this ,well done Nicola Randall those participating . Cheers and love from me and Canada XXX
Washington State University sponsors a program known as COAST. Volunteers train to use transects and learn to ID items that wash up on the beach. Bird remains and also noted as well as the movement of the remains by water. Your Thames One program is admirable because of the encouragement of youth. ❤
I never go to the shore without bags to take litter away, and every time, I feel like I could have brought more bags...it is awful how much one can pick up just wandering along the shore. We can all do this, every time we go, take some litter away. Thank you for continuing to raise awareness Nicola.
That was awesome. You know what would be great? Is if the schools would sponsor events where the students would come and do that. It would help teach them about the environment. And you could do it by the grade. I bet that Thames21 would be great to help teach the kids. And think of all that could be cleaned up!
Nicola -- now that's what you need more of -- a thick Scottish brogue!!!! 😁 But your environmentally-conscious videos are a great way to show that despite thousands of years of people tossing their junk into the Thames -- people now care a lot about cleaning up the modern trash and most of the worst of the older trash!
Wunderbare Aktion😊 In Deutschland kenne ich solche Aktionen nicht, wir lieben unsere Flüsse nicht so sehr, wie ihr eure Thames. Viel Erfolg und liebe Grüße Jette
Over in Canada here or at least in British Columbia we have a Rivers cleanup day....volunteers go out along creeks and rivers and along accessible areas of the coastal beaches and pick up any and all kinds of garbage and things that don't belong in nature....it is amazing what you find....always lots of fishing line strewn about sadly.
I'm sure in the UK your local governments supply plenty of trash bins if only more people would use them we have similar issues here in Canada thankfully good people like yourself and the others in this video are gaining in numbers due to sharing info on events like this cheers to you all looking forward to next week Karl from eastern Canada
Haven't researched it, but a biodegradable 'plastic' cup would be nice -- works fine as a cup with liquids for a few hours, but then starts to dissolve into harmless organic materials.
How disappointing that such a little amount of people turned up to help with this brilliant cause ,glad you showed your support Nickola,i wish i lived closer i would have loved to come and help ,sadly not much of this kind of thing happening in my area of west Yorkshire
I was originally worried by the way disposable e-cigs were replacing disposable lighters as a major source of plastic pollution in the Thames, as evidenced by an earlier video on this channel. Then it transpired that disposable vaping gear was a significant cause of fires in waste recycling centres, with each such fire putting more toxic pollution into the air than a small town does in a year. Recently, following reports of huge numbers of wild fires in forest and brush all over the world, I realised that I was seeing e-cigs littering the ground in conifer plantations where no-one in his right mind would drop a real cigarette. But my biggest worry was when trading standards departments began to report that illegally-imported vaping fluids, which presumably share a source with the filling in illegally-imported disposable vapes, could sometimes contain three hundred times the official safe concentration of nicotine. Not 300% more, three hundred _times_ as much. The surge in excess deaths in the past two years, which governments are not investigating for fear of upsetting the vaccine companies, mostly seem to involve heart attacks in a home setting, which is not where the majority of heart attacks used to happen. We are not allowed to comment on whether this is actually due to _vaccines_ or not, but I can't see how random vapers in the privacy of their own homes occasionally and without warning getting up to three hundred times their normal dose of nicotine is not a potential cause of excess deaths by heart attack in its own right. If we can't ban vapes to save the rivers and seas, and we can't ban vapes to stop fires happening in recycling plants and woodlands, can we at least consider banning the blasted things to stop people suddenly dropping dead? Excess deaths above the five year average in the UK are currently running at about four hundred a week. It's hard to see any health benefit of vaping that would justify that kind of carnage.
Great program...but.....I noticed plastic trash bin bags, plastic chairs to sit on, plastic wrap over the lunch sandwiches, plastic tablecloth and even the paper drink cups came in a plastic bag....IT's everywhere in modern life. I grew up in the 50's when plastic was almost non-existent in daily life, so know it can be done, but it's hard, isn't it???
Kudos to Thames21 for entertaining,enlightening,and encouraging young people in their growing awareness of that seemingly ever present rubbish that surrounds all of us! Also,why did you have to show all of those sandwiches? I want one of those sandwiches,I didn’t earn it,but sandwiches were invented over there,I need one of those sandwiches. Sorry,I meant every word,but also challenged myself to use the word sandwich as much as possible in one paragraph.
I love your advocacy for a better environment. I am on the Conservation Commission in town. We attempt to educate ppl on Global Warming, mulching, recycling etc. we also have clean-up days around town & the Farmington River. I took notes on the sign & the games etc. We are trying to eradicate invasive water chestnuts that are in some ponds that flow into the Connecticut River & then the ocean. The accompanying music on your videos are always so pleasant. I wonder what is done with the invasive crabs?
The bags that are replacing the single use plastic bags are also made from plastic. Not everyone reuses the reusable plastic bags.The reusable plastic bags also leak.
I see so many bits of metal and wire laying on the foreshore. Why can't it be picked up and recycled? Too costly? What is the cost to the Thames by leaving it?
A concept,submitted for your approval. Land. Water. It is a conversation,this exchange between these two entities. Be it river -based,or seashore-based,this is a conversation,sometimes an argument,fists will be blown in these times of struggle. Who do we stand for? Are we the people of land against water? Are we fighting,or befriending? Water is our benefactor. Shall we continue to spit in its face? The water will flow,either way,always knowing,no matter what we choose to do. There will always be the liquid,but will it become bitter,literally and metaphorically?
People should be doing this every day. The Thames is a dirty river, always has been. No one dredge the rivers any more, if they did do this flooding would not happen.I remember way back in the day we had Keep Britain Tidy, do you remember that? Littering and fly tipping bad, bad, bad. But people are dirty, they throw stuff down the loo which you shouldn't, here in Spain we have septic tanks, so no sanitary objects down the loos, it blocks them, and then nasty things will start to smell or come back up, it is like when you get those fat bergs in the sewers which are pretty old, Roman, and you should not throw baby wipes down there either but they do. Very interesting. Is it true than waste land that were dumps are now being built on? If not they should. Housing problem solved.❤
The problem is these manufacturers who want cheaper means use plastics to package there goods .What happen to using more climate friendly packages like glass bottles that can be recycled trying to find glass bottles other than beer or a very few soft drinks or the lids on your over price coffee's or even the snacks you buy think about all oil wasted making these plastics ? It would bring the price of heat for your home cheaper fuel for transportation of goods and for the farmers but NO everyone wants cheap packages
