{"id":18615,"date":"2015-04-30T12:19:45","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T16:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=18615"},"modified":"2015-04-30T15:09:39","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T19:09:39","slug":"lets-do-it-issues-global-challenge-lets-clean-up-the-whole-world-in-one-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/lets-do-it-issues-global-challenge-lets-clean-up-the-whole-world-in-one-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s Do It! Issues Global Challenge: Let’s Clean Up The Whole World In One Day [Updated]"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Let’s Do It! Clean-Up in 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I have trouble imagining cleaning up my whole house in one day, so picking up all the trash<\/a>\u00a0dumped illegally all over the world in that time frame seems like an impossible goal. But I’d also say that for smaller areas – say, small countries – and (as you’ll see in the video below), Estonia proved me wrong way back in 2008.<\/p>\n

Turns out, dumping one’s household trash<\/a> in the forest was a common practice there. A group of people concerned with all of the waste that had built up decided to not only challenge their fellow Estonians to clean it up… but to do so in a single day! It worked: on May 3rd, 2008, the first Let’s Do It! event mobilized over 50,000 people to pick up trash… over 10,000 tons of trash in 5 hours. From there… well, watch this promo video from last year’s clean-up to see how this movement grew:<\/p>\n