[Avodah] Litter on Shabbos

[Micha Berger]

Say someone is walking down a street on Shabbos, within an eruv,
and notices on the floor the wrapper from a heimish brand product. The
person wants to pick up the wrapper, to minimize any negative image of our
community caused by Jewish-looking garbage flowing down the street. But,
of course, it's muqtzah. Does avoiding chillul hasheim trump muqtzah? Can
we call this letzorekh gufo? Does it make a different if the kid (I
presume it's a child) opened the bag on Shabbos so that it's a keli that
was nolad?

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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