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September 19, 2025
As part of National Cleanup Day on Saturday, today’s MI Environment edition provides an update on EGLE staffer Bryan Grochowski’s passion to pick up litter on walks and where he finds it.
Bryan Grochowski, a hazardous waste inspector at the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE), thinks that even small actions make a difference, and that if you pick up one or two pieces of litter, that is amplified millions of times, if everyone shared that commitment. Imagine 10 million Michiganders collecting one piece a day. “I might be addicted to collecting litter, as I now choose parking spots where I see plastic on the ground, lol,” he says.”
Bryan Grochowski picks up litter in the shadow of the Michigan Capitol building. In his hometown of Alpena, Grochowski noticed that after a parade, very little litter is left, because everyone takes a moment to leave their community cleaner. “That’s a great culture. It’s a humble task, but it makes a difference to clean up our communities on walking routes, shopping trips, etc.”
MI Environment introduced readers to Grochowski in 2022 in an article that noted his elite status on Litterati, an app that aims to create a litter-free world and keeps a record of every piece of litter picked up by users. That year, the app listed Grochowski among the Top 25 of the world.
This year, Grochowski has paid particular attention to picking up litter that contains microplastics. He learned, for example, that the filter part of cigarettes is made of a plasticized material called cellulose acetate. “It breaks into tiny fibers of microplastics which gets into our soil and surface waste,” he noted. “Most people don’t realize that the material is basically like dumping plastic fibers!”
Bottle caps are also very common litter found in find in parking lots. “It turns out that many of them get ground down, as they are run over, turning one bottle cap into thousands of micro plastics, which can contaminate our lakes, streams, wildlife, and potentially drinking water sources.”
Pictured: Smashed bottlecap.
Grochowski reports that since joining the app, almost seven years ago he has collected over 40,000 pieces of litter. The app provides a map, showing where he has collected all across Michigan, as well as on a trip to Italy and recently to North Carolina, Virginia, and Oregon. Last year he placed in the Top 20 for the number of days he has collected litter. He would have been in the Top 10 but for a problem encountered when reactivating his account after getting a new cell phone. Despite that problem, his goal is to finish the year in the Top 10 in the world for the number of days picking up litter, likely approaching 330 days.
Bryan Grochowski’s statistics on the Litterati app.
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