6 weeks until World Cleanup Day
2020 has thrown plenty of hurdles in all of our way, but we are happy to announce that World Cleanup Day will go forward despite the challenges. This year will be different, no doubt, adjusting to each and every country’s circumstances, but the battle for a cleaner and healthier world will still go on.
Therefore we have listed the ways how you and your organisation can participate at World Cleanup Day on 19th of September:
Group cleanups
Cleanups will be organized where possible and allowed. Organizers, with the permission from local governments, may gather people for cleanups with recommendation to restrict the number of participants and to spread cleanup locations out so as to avoid people coming in close contact with too many attendees. Please register your cleanups here: registration.worldcleanupday.org
Individual cleanups
As an alternative for large gatherings, people can be invited to clean their surrounding areas with their families or individually.
Digital cleanups
If you find you are restricted in your country, or the situation doesn’t look favourable for traditional cleanups, we propose a cleanup you can do within your own home - digital cleanup. Find out more about digital cleanup here and here are materials on how to organise it within your organisation.
Best Mappers win prizes!
Before World Cleanup Day, you can use our TrashOut app to contribute to the success of World Cleanup Day by gathering valuable data about waste for the cleanup day and beyond. If we know where the trash is, we can do something about it, isn't that right?
This is also a great volunteering opportunity that you can propose for your members and network in times of Covid-19, because mapping can be done any time and any where - while you jog, walk or hike around your neighbourhood or in the nature.
There are special prizes for best mappers, too. There are 3 categories and each winner of the category wins a ticket to the Let's Do It World Annual conference with travel costs covered.
- Best Mapper - for this category, we award the country that maps the highest number of new trash points during the duration of the challenge.
- Best Mapping Manager - we will track how many of the existing 'not cleaned' trash points already exist for each country at the beginning of the challenge. Then we will monitor how many of them have been updated with a new picture and status by the end of the challenge. They do not need to be updated as cleaned, just updated to specify whether the waste is still there.
- Best Cleaner - two weeks after WCD 2020 are given to update all the trash points you cleaned during the World Cleanup Day event. For this prize, we will compare the percentage of 'Cleaned' reports one week before WCD with the percentage of 'Cleaned' reports two weeks after WCD. We will monitor the change in the percentage of cleaned reports, which means that all countries with at least 50 trash point reports can join in.
Download the TrashOut here and try it out today. Mapping promotional materials can be found here.
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