It's a trend that encourages those to clean up the neighbourhood around them

There's another social media challenge sweeping the Internet: #TrashTag

It's a challenge that inspires those living in their community to pick up garbage to make their neighbourhood cleaner.

Michael McPherson of Kitchener decided to take on the challenge. He's an avid Reddit user and saw the trend and decided to take this trend to Waterloo Region.

He, along with his wife, children and friends of the family decided to clean up a portion of Queen Street.

McPherson said it was a good lesson for his kids, as they cleaned up the trash near a creek.

"We actually kept having them keep stock of what they were seeing," said McPherson. "We were just trying to instill some mindfulness."

He noticed a few particular types of garbage that he found on his cleanup throughout Queen Street, such as single use water bottles and Gatorade bottles.

"There were also plastic bags," he said, "It was ridiculous. The bags were everywhere. As well as fast food bags."

McPherson encourages anyone to try out #TrashTag, as it doesn't take too much out of your day to do.

Within a couple of hours, he along with the seven other people he was with, accumulated 11 trash bags and 5 recycle bags.

"There were welcome honks as people drove by," McPherson said.

"It was stewardship and a sense of community on the fly. There was exercise, of course we were saying our backs are a little tender, but it didn't eat up a huge amount of time and the impact was great."