Showing up and cleaning up — primary pupils step up to our litter challenge

Picker Pals have picked up more than 450 tonnes of rubbish from the Irish environment since the programme began in 2019

Rory Harrington, 10: a Picker Pal on the litter-picking trail

Rory Harrington, a 10-year-old pupil in Beaumont National School in Cork, found a lot of rubbish behind trees in his local park. And he puzzled over a single sock he found, which he thinks was a child’s.

His mum, Sinéad, was surprised at the amount of cans she, Rory and her eight-year-old twin daughters, Tara and Lily, picked up when it was Rory’s weekend to bring the Picker Pack home from school.