A mum of two asked her kids what they wanted to do on Sunday and was surprised by their suggestion.
Jane McEvatt, 35, was talking to her children, Mia and Jimmy, about what they wanted to do together with the time she had off work.
Her eight-year-old said she wanted to clean the whole of Speke as they walked home from the shop and little brother Jimmy joined in.
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Jane said the streets were strewn with bottles and empty packets around midday yesterday, upsetting the kids who learn in school about the importance of caring for the environment.
The nursery worker told the ECHO how seeing streets full of litter makes Mia and Jimmy, seven, feel sad.
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She said: "It just makes them sad. It's not very nice. They're taught in school it's not good for the environment."
So their decision to help nature and the local community by picking up rubbish left by others made Jane feel 'proud'.
She told the ECHO : "They're always very conscious of when we go anywhere, you know, we'll go for a picnic or a day out, and we put our rubbish in the bin or we take it home with us.
"They've always been like that, but they've never said they wanted to go out and clean before."
Equipped with gloves, the family gathered rubbish on three Speke streets in the lunchtime Sunday sun, filling two bin bags in an hour before the kids got tired.
Not defeated by heat and tiredness, Mia is eager to go again for a few more days of litter-picking. Jane said her daughter will be inviting friends to join them in doing their little bit to save the environment.
They may even get a litter picker stick to help them in their quest.
