‘High above Sheffield’s city skyline, I become one of the #TrashMob’
The American writer David Sedaris has become such a prominent litter picker in his West Sussex home of Horsham, that the council honoured him with a waste vehicle named Pig Pen Sedaris. The author and essayist – a self-confessed trash-collecting obsessive who walks up to 25 miles a day – is now quite the expert in litter, once appearing in front of MPs at a parliamentary select committee. An attitude he commonly encounters, he told them, is: ‘I didn’t drop it, why would I pick it up?’
It’s easy to recoil
