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A Surrey MC is using his love for nature to clean up both the grime scene and Elmbridge through the power of social media.

Thorfinn Hobson Bonning is harnessing his own career to educate the industry and spread awareness of the amount of litter dropped in his own village in Cobham.

Working the mic as Luciferian on stage, he recently started on another passion - uploading pictures of discarded rubbish bags that he's collected from around the village near his home.

Despite being from "quite a rich area", the 25-year-old can collect as many as eight bags of discarded rubbish during one sweep before they appear on his ‘Trash Bagz’ Facebook page in the hope of educating others.

Thorfinn said: “I go out, pick rubbish, take pictures of it and use the platform of my music to spread awareness. A lot of people in the grime scene are aware of what I’m doing.

“I’ve had MCs coming up to me and saying, ‘I got a McDonald's and was going to throw it out the window then I remembered your post’. It makes people think twice. It's already had an impact."

“I’m a bit more conscious in my lyrics, it does transfer to my music. People become aware of my music through 'Trash Bagz' and people become aware of 'Trash Bagz' through my music."

(Image: Trash Bagz)

'I should make something of this'

Thorfinn is regularly spotted sweeping the Cobham streets with a couple of friends and the grime fighting team can collect as many as eight bags of discarded trash to bag up during the by-weekly sweeps, which started in Molesey Heath a few months ago.

He said: “Cobham is quite a rich area so you would think it would be quite clean but there is actually some parts where there has been a lot of rubbish that has been dumped, especially down the Portsmouth Road near the Esso garage.

"I was walking back one night from the woods and someone must have thrown out a plastic bag full of rubbish from their car. As I was walking, I found more and more rubbish, bottles and plastic. I picked up the plastic bag and put all the rubbish back in the bag.

"While I was doing this I was thinking I should make something of this. I thought I could use my talent to spread awareness of something I care about. There is almost no end to what can happen."