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These B.C. garbage picker-uppers say once you start, it's impossible to stop

These B.C. garbage picker-uppers say once you start, it's impossible to stop

For Vancouver's Yasmin Schepens, what started as a project to photograph her favourite spot of beach has blown into, at times, an overwhelming commitment to rid it of garbage like cigarette butts, food wrappers and other pieces of plastic. "I couldn't just leave it there, so I started picking it up," said the 30-year-old who moved to Canada from Belgium in 2016.