Two GoodGymers ran from Ealing Broadway to Park Royal to bring order to the infamous alleyway along the Picadilly Line tracks. The pathway was known for continuously attracting litter. On a November night, however, the rubbish was playing hide and seek with our team. The darkness and unexpectedly large amount of leaves must have had an impact on how much litter we had found. Is it a leaf? Is it a chocolate wrapper? Are there bottles buried under the leaves?

It felt like it was already January - not because of the cold. The ratio between the soft drink bottles and the beer cans was - surprise, surprise - definitely in favour of the non-alcoholic beverages. Was it Dry January already? We still found a decent amount of evidence that drinkers of Polish beers like Żubr and Warka must have been around.

We collected everything we could see in the light of head torches and not hidden under the leaves - two bags in total in less than an hour. Four tennis balls and a jacket that someone had left on a bollard, we haven't classified as rubbish and left those items alone. Maybe someone would come back for them?