Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. Archbishop Tutu
One of the key things we can do is to aim to leave the world a better place than we found it. This means to have an awareness of litter. So when you go on an outing, or take a walk to the shop, or go for a jog, have a bag with you and aim to pick up a few pieces.
There are lots of catchy ideas that can help to make it fun and you can get the kids also involved
The Pick up 5!
We have five fingers so everytime you are on the way home, pick up five pieces of litter and put a photo on social media. What about dirty hands? Well you can use the bag turned inside out to pick up the litter
#PickUp5 Litter Clean-up Initiative
The Five Rs!
The Diocese of Harare in Zimbabwe had a saying of 5 Rs – refuse, reduce, reuse recycle and rejoice! They encouraged parisioners to take a bag to work or school every Friday and fill it up on the way home
Plogging!
Plogging comes from the Swedish word ‘Plogga”
Stockholm Sweden became the first city to host an organized “Plogga” in 2016. This event combined a jog, jogga in Swedish, with picking up litter, plocka up. Plogga is an association and popular movement where the activity itself is about picking up rubbish while jogging. It is also just as easy to walk, skateboard, cycle, swim or other. Plogging is a change of attitude and ploggers are proud garbage collectors who do something for our environment and health before it is too late.
Since then, over 3 million people have participated in organized or solo ploggas. Every day, approximately 20,000 people plog in over 100 countries.
lets do good and feel good!