Environmental activists get down and dirty on mass cleanup day

GLOBAL CLEANUP. Hundreds of volunteers participated in the 34th International Coastal Cleanup Day at the Baseco Beach in Manila. September 21, 2019. Photo by Jire Carreon/Rappler

The World Cleanup Day – an initiative that has got millions into the streets and cleaning up litter across the globe since it began just over a decade ago – falls at the beginning of a week of climate action called for by Thunberg, who will attend a UN youth summit on Saturday. "The conditions for a non-violent march are not in place," Greenpeace, a co-organizer of the event, said on Twitter.While the types of trash collected across the world varied, the common material in the bin bags across the world was plastic, amid surging concerns over the environmental costs of single use items and microplastics in oceans, rivers and drinking supplies.

"It's for us to help the environment, especially here in Manila, there's a lot of garbage," Mae Angela Areglado, a 20-year-old student told Agence France-Presse as she pitched in with the cleanup – held right next to the city's huge Baseco slum.

The group said about 30,000 people are participating in Estonia on Saturday in a drive focusing on small litter like bottle tops and cigarette butts. In Vietnam's capital Hanoi, around 1,400 volunteers went searching for litter under the scorching sun.

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