The Swedish trend of collecting litter on the run has hit the Twin Cities—but for Tom Cousins, the phenomenon is nothing new. EarthDay
But for Tom Cousins, a 70-year old runner from the Twin Cities, plogging is nothing new. He just didn’t know there was a word for it.by phone. “If I had all kinds of money I would donate trees to the parks, but I don’t so I do what little I can do.”, almost every day Cousins runs about a 5K around the Lake of Isles in Minneapolis, but he makes many stops along the way to pick up trash.
Besides a few medical issues and injuries over the years, he’s run ever since. He estimates that he runs about 330 days out of a year. The only barrier that stops him from running every day is the weather: his limit is five degrees above zero—he won’t run when it’s any colder.Connie Nelson He started picking up trash consistently 15 years ago because he was irritated that people would leave their garbage scattered around the lakes.
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