Worldwide Cleanup set for September 16-17

Date:   8/26/2005 10:18:49 PM ( 19 y ago)

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Cleaning up the world
Last updated: 27th August, 2005

Planet 21 enthusiastically supports next month's Clean Up the World campaign. This massive environmental clean-up operation will involve millions of volunteers from across the globe. It takes place on 16-18 September.

Held in conjunction with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), Clean Up the World Weekend, now in its thirteenth year, is expected to attract participation of some 35 million volunteers in 110 countries, in a global effort to “clean up, fix up and conserve the environment”.

Organized under the theme Green Cities, Green Communities, the weekend activities will range from cleaning up Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to large-scale clean ups of debris and tree planting in areas affected by the December 26 Indian Ocean Tsunami.

The Clean Up campaign started in 1989 when an Australian solo-yachtsman and builder Ian Kiernan, disgusted with the amount of rubbish he came across while sailing, organized a clean up of the Sydney Harbour, during which some 40,000 volunteers removed rusted car bodies, plastics, glass bottles and cigarette butts from the water.

The campaign went global in 1993, with Sydney becoming Clean Up the World’s headquarters. Today it brings together approximately 600 members from around the world ranging from local community groups to national campaigns that carry out environmental projects throughout the year. .
“I think it’s terrific that a spur-of-the-moment clean up of the Sydney Harbour sixteen years ago sparked an initiative that today mobilizes more people around the world, than the population of Australia,” Kiernan said.

To get involved in the Clean Up the World weekend, individuals and communities can register by visiting http://www.cleanuptheworld.org or contact Lara Meredith at +61 2 9692 1205, lara@cleanup.com.au.

Wherever we live this is a chance to put people power into action.

John Rowley


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