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Icky Picker

From Halifax, Nova Scotia, to wherever you walk

Become an
Icky Picker.

A litter grabber, a bag, and the walk you already take. My son named my grabber the Icky Picker. Now it is what we call anyone who carries one.

Count me inShop the kit
Jesse in a toque on a sunny Halifax sidewalk, grinning and holding up a full clear bag of litter.Most mornings look like this
Jesse in a rain jacket with the hood up, smiling in the rain and holding open a bag full of cans and wrappers.Rain or shine
Icky Picker community seal

Pickers so far

Jesse, HalifaxMy son, HalifaxA neighbour and his son, HalifaxTheir grandparents, HalifaxThree families at the park, HalifaxThe daycare parents, HalifaxFriends, TorontoTwo friends who text their hauls

One family. The walks we were already taking.

Nobody was recruited. People saw a kid with a grabber having fun and wanted in. That is the whole plan, and it works.

Counted by hand on October 7, 2026. Not a live feed.

1,300+

pounds of litter picked

By one family, on the walks we already take

2.5

years of daily picking

Rain, snow, and the dogs come too

6+

households who joined on their own

A street, a park, friends in Toronto

Jesse on a sidewalk with two small dogs on leads, a litter picker and a bag of trash at his feet.The dogs come too

“When we find garbage, it’s like a treat for us. Because we love helping Mother Nature.”

My son, who named the picker

It started with a daily walk to daycare past the same garbage, a line from Marcus Aurelius, and a Father’s Day present. Two and a half years later a street, a park, and a daycare are out picking.

Read how it spread

We are building a grabber that counts for you.

Right now a 21-gram camera is strapped to the picker with elastics. It watches the jaws, and the phone in your pocket names what you pick up. The next one has the camera built into the arm, a battery that lasts a month, and a direct line to World Litter Run.

  • TodayLitterCam: a camera on elastics, custom firmware, a model trained on our own Halifax walks.
  • NextThe Icky Picker: a normal grabber with a camera in the shaft. Squeeze, and it photographs what you grabbed.
  • ThenIts own SIM, so a walk streams straight to the World Litter Run map.
See the prototypeFund the next one
A green beer can gripped in the litter picker’s jaws among weeds, seen from the camera mounted above the jaws.What the camera on the picker sees

Wear it so people ask.

Every Icky Picker started with a question on the sidewalk. The kit makes you easy to ask.

Everything in the shop
Back of a forest green hoodie with the Icky Picker mascot, the words ICKY PICKER and Cleaner tomorrows printed in cream.

The Walk Hoodie Forest

$98

A blaze orange cuffed knit tuque with a small Icky Picker mascot embroidered in forest green on the cuff.

The Roadside Tuque Blaze orange

$42

A large blaze orange tote bag with black handles and the cream Icky Picker logo printed large on the front.

The Haul Bag Blaze orange

$58

After print and shipping costs, every dollar goes to building the Icky Picker. Pick up in Halifax for free.

What an Icky Picker does

  1. 1

    Carries a grabber

    Any grabber. Ours has sneakers, yours does not have to.

  2. 2

    Picks what they pass

    One bag on one walk. The walk you already take.

  3. 3

    Counts it

    Log the walk at World Litter Run, or just text us the haul. Either way it is counted.

Count me in

Tell us your name and where you walk. That is the whole membership.

No newsletter. A note when the picker is ready, and when there is a cleanup near you.

World Litter Run

Icky Picker funds the hardware. World Litter Run keeps the score.Every pickup, brand, and kilogram, open to the councils and producers who can act on it.

Visit World Litter Run