The TikTok star cleaning up litter in Scotland's forests

TikToker Josh Donaldson posts videos of his litter picking successful Scotland's forests.

He has a pursuing of 1.5 cardinal and thousands of views per video.

His hobby of clearing rubbish from forests adjacent his location successful Arbroath, Angus, has turned him into a section sensation.

But with followers successful countries including the USA and Vietnam, the 32-year-old has reached radical astir the world.

They person adjacent helped him crowdfund to bargain a van to assistance him transportation retired bigger clean-ups.

Josh is ever looking to bash much for the situation and hopes his enactment tin animate others.

His extremity was ne'er to summation this overmuch popularity.

When helium archetypal started posting connected TikTok, his videos focused connected intelligence wellness and helium would often movie himself walking and talking astir it.

After concisely mentioning helium cleaned up litter arsenic a hobby, his pursuing encouraged him to station video of himself doing conscionable that.

His girl was his main information for this successful the archetypal place. After she was born, Josh realised his biology anxiousness had accrued and helium wanted to bash thing to help.

"I wasn't motivated to bash overmuch astir what I was leaving down until we had her," helium told BBC Scotland.

"Now that I cognize it's a satellite that she's going to beryllium surviving in, it makes maine privation to permission it a spot amended than it is."

Josh is extracurricular successful each weathers clearing up what helium can. He usually finds integrative bottles, nutrient packets, vapes, and glass.

On 1 juncture helium recovered a heap of 300 tyres, connected different a pig's head.

He has adjacent travel crossed a grenade which required the weaponry squad to travel and region it.

Some days helium spends hours successful the aforesaid spot, but enjoys being extracurricular arsenic it doesn't consciousness similar work.

"It's decidedly rewarding," helium said."It tin beryllium rather taxing and hard and astatine times, you tin get disenfranchised and demotivated.

"But I deliberation for the astir part, erstwhile you commencement to spot the worldly piling up, oregon you locomotion determination that was a messiness and present it isn't, it is simply a bully feeling!"

Over the years, Josh has dealt with intelligence wellness issues and finds that being successful quality is simply a bully healer.

"I deliberation the reward from picking worldly up is fantastic and it feels large but conscionable being retired successful quality astatine each is simply a large healer," helium said.

"I consciousness similar being among the trees you get a amended enactment and tin calm down a wee spot and beryllium distant from the struggles of what's going connected astatine location and whatever.

"So, I deliberation there's a batch to beryllium said for conscionable getting outside, but getting extracurricular and picking up rubbish astatine the aforesaid clip is simply a bonus," says Josh.

His enactment has inspired others to spell and cleanable up their ain section areas. People often nonstop him videos of them picking up litter and doing formation cleans, aft seeing his videos.

Once he's finished a litter pick, helium separates the rubbish and takes it to the section assembly discarded recycling centre.

His pursuing are precise supportive and his comments are filled with affirmative feedback. They adjacent raised funds for a van to transport the results of his bigger clean-ups to the discarded plant.

His agelong word extremity is to acceptable up his ain recycling centre wherever helium tin abstracted the materials and instrumentality a spot of unit disconnected the council.

Ideally, this would let renewable materials to beryllium produced from the recycled litter.

"Going forward, the adjacent measurement is to get premises truthful I tin person a recycling centre," helium said. "I tin physique fundamentally a spot wherever I tin instrumentality each the worldly and redistribute it successful a meaningful manor. Recycle arsenic overmuch arsenic possible.

"I deliberation going forwards if we tin marque affirmative changes and bash bully things it mightiness not alteration everything but it mightiness marque a nicer locomotion for the kids, a nicer locomotion successful the woods that it would person without, truthful I deliberation it's worthy it."