As a warm up for the Great British Spring Clean coming up, Pavel and Ben made the brisk stroll from St Peter's Square to Sackville Street and a green space often littered with rubbish from passers by and passing cars.

In all, we collected 7 full refuse sacks plus a stack of large pieces of cardboard from an area known as Greek Street as one of the sites for Ardwick Climate Action. Included in the haul was a range of:

• cans and drink bottles
• unused tampons
• fast food packing (McDonald's and Archies prime culprits)
• packaging and wrapping
• laughing gas canisters
• cutlery (some of it looked like Uri Geller had been using it...)

After an hour or so, we cleared the area and piled the bags in a reasonable spot to be collected by Keep MCR Tidy and the council to collect this week. Hopefully, removing litter will encourage others to look after the area and not drop their discarded waste for others to deal with.

Keep an eye on upcoming GoodGym MCR tasks with an array of litter picking sites on offer