'litter picking' is a correct and usable term in written English.
It can refer to the physical act of cleaning up a particular area of litter or to a specific type of volunteer work. For example: "My community has a litter picking event twice a month to help keep our streets clean."
The work carried out by detainees includes kitchen tasks, cleaning toilets and showers, and litter picking.
It's true that for those in the system, litter picking is better than it was, she says.
Most festivals get their volunteers to help out with tasks such as giving out wristbands, car parking, monitoring gates, litter picking or just keeping an eye on things.
Even if he wished to, responsibility for waste management is devolved to municipal governments, where public funding is tighter and litter picking less lucrative.
The tiny dark-eyed juncos that spent all summer in the Far North are back now, hopping around in the leaf litter, picking up the safflower seeds the tufted titmice push out of the feeder in their search for the sunflower seeds they prefer.
Becki Woolrich runs community litter picking events in her area, which has a fortnightly bin collection.
Small pieces of plastic topped the list of litter picked up, with 960 bits on average collected for each kilometre of beach cleaned.
He said more than 2,000 people took part in beach litter picks before Easter in 2014.
He litter picked everything from cigarette butts to plastic bottles and was rewarded for his voluntary work by the authorities with a seat at the closing ceremony.
Earlier this month Mr Britton told people living in several nearby villages they could arrange community litter picks as part of a Keep Britain Tidy's national Great British Spring Clean event to be held on 22 and 23 March.
The packs collected were found in refuse bins or as litter picked up from sidewalks and gutters, on both sides of the street, within five city blocks of a large taxi rank in each downtown site.
