The dog walkers photographing and videoing litter across Brisbane

There’s a growing community of Queenslanders who are picking up rubbish on their daily walk and documenting it - and some of their finds will make you sick.

CAROLYN Vincent saw it every day when she walked her dog through Moorooka.

“I used to see litter and I would pick it up and put it in the bin,” she said.

“Then one day I took one of those Woolies shopping bags and I filled it up to the top with what I found. Then I got home and sorted it, and there was over a square metre when I tipped it out. I was so confronted, I took a photo of it and posted it on our community Facebook page to show people how much there was.”

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Ms Vincent was swamped with support, so she had an idea.

“I thought maybe I should pick up more litter, and if it got people thinking they could do the same, then we’d have a clean suburb,” she said.

So she started posting a photo a day of the rubbish she’d collected on her daily walk.

“Then I started a (Facebook) post for surrounding suburbs as well for Annerley, Tarragindi, Oxley, Salisbury, Yeronga, and it kind of became a thing and everybody knew about it,” she said.

Mission Litter Pickup was born, and spawned its own Facebook page where other rubbish collectors could post their photos.

Some of the rubbish collected during a Mission Litter Pickup participant’s daily walk.

Ms Vincent also won a Cleaner Greener Suburbs award from Brisbane City Council, and news of the project spread as far as the Galapagos Islands.

“The whole difference between what I’ve been doing and what a lot of other people were doing was that I shared the picture. You’re not only spreading awareness, you also inspire others to do the same,” she said.

“Most people don’t even think there’s litter around. It’s only when you start looking that you see it everywhere. Now I’ve got hawk eyes for litter. If you actually start looking, you’ll see it everywhere. It’s ridiculous.”

Discarded earplugs and cigarettes found by Ms Vincent.

Ms Vincent has found almost everything on her walks, and nothing is too revolting for her to take home.

“I found a condom this week,” she said.

“I’ve also found dirty babies’ nappies. Like, dirty dirty babies’ nappies.”

Moorooka woman Carolyn Vincent found a condom on her litter walk.

She’s also working with schools to do community clean ups, and thinks the benefits extend far beyond cleaner streets.

“I’m really passionate about building strong connected neighbourhoods. Picking up litter just happened by chance but it’s a great way to bring people together,” she said.

“Our tag line is walk with purpose. If you’re already going for a walk, just add a bag and a glove.”

Mission Litter Pickup founder Carolyn Vincent.

Emma House was also sick of seeing rubbish on the streets of West End on her daily walks with her neighbours’ dog.

“It’s the same pieces of clothing, the same cartons, so I took a plastic bag and some gloves when I walked the dog and I picked up as much as I could,” she said.

She decided to take it one step further, making a video of the rubbish she found - and that was just from her 600m walk.

Emma House was so disgusted by the amount of rubbish she found during her 600m walk, she filmed it.

“I was like, what the hell? You walk along and you don’t realise it’s that much until you pick it all up and put it in a pile,” she said.

Ms House said she’d recycle what she found, and would take the clothes to H&M’s recycling program.

“I just don’t know if people are being lazy as hell and just throwing it on the ground. But how hard is it just to take your own rubbish with you?” she said.

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“It’s not hard. And it’s disgusting. Don’t get me started on how many cigarette butts there were.”

Ms House said she got “a lot of weird looks” as she carried her bag of rubbish around West End, but she hoped it would inspire others to do the same.

She also encouraged people to use Brisbane City Council’s Bin and Recycling app to help sort recyclables.

“I don’t know if the council needs stricter laws on littering, but I’m sorry, Australians don’t care, and we need to care. What’s it going to take for people to wake up?”