this is from yonks ago but it's recently become important (in light of the Olympic Terra project). at the very end of january I went to help out at a Thames21 volunteering event, we were cleaning out trash from the Lee Valley River by Three Mills Green. one of the Thames estuaries there is basically the end point for a lot of the junk that's thrown into the river; the stream carries it right into this lovely historical sight and fucks everything up. it's pretty gross, people should be ashamed. a lot of it is obviously driftwood but the amount of plastic, styrofoam, crates, shoes and other more disgusting things is mindblowing.


this is what it looked like after about 4 or 5 hours work from our group of around 9 people. apparently it was something like 20 wheelbarrows and 35 bin bags of trash. and STILL:


however, I went back there when collecting images for the Olympic Terra project (totally unrelated, weird coincidence), and decided to have a look at the area Thames21 had focused on. gobsmacked. isn't it beautiful?

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