Some results:
It's gotten me on TV a couple times.
It's led to working with my city councilman, whose team recently started organizing group pickups.
Someone considering a Senate run contacted me for advice on sustainability.
I'm working with a few corporations to organize nationwide pickup events -- mainly fitness places you'd probably know the names of.
As a regular in my local park, the drug dealers there have become friendly with me, leading to long conversations about life.
I'm friends with entrepreneurs in the field.
People often thank me and we talk.
It reinforces my diet. I avoid packaged food, which I find increasingly disgusting, largely for what the packaging does to the world and the entitlement, willful ignorance, and salt/sugar/fat/convenience addiction does to our culture.
Most of all, I feel connected to my community.
On the downside, my view of human nature can get dark when I consider how much people pollute.