#CleanUrCity Movement
#CleanUrCity
How effective a small group can impact.
If a small
group organized themselves on weekends can clean and collect significant bags
of garbage and plastic remaining materials thus we quickly learnt that there is
no small impact when it comes to helping in the clean up of our environment. As
the volunteers pick up items one by one like a cigarette butt, plastic bottles
and handful trash will make a huge trash pile. Liido Beach cleanups are truly a
rewarding experience. Knowing the trash picked up won’t end up at the beach and
won’t cause harm which is empowering. Seeing how much change a small group can
do in such little time should encourage others to do the same. It was a great
way to spend a Friday afternoon, especially knowing the positive impact that these
volunteers are making.
Clean
environment calls for a collective responsibility and it isn’t about the
municipality role alone, if we need to have a more clean roads, public spaces
and beaches then we are all accountable starting from individual behavioral
acts. Its within the collective responsibility of the nation and youth to make
the change and make a reality for a clean city and beaches, The clean beach we
all desire to enjoy begins at your front
door, regardless of how far you live from the ocean, so if you see any trash on
the beach or in your neighborhood make sure to pick it up and dispose of it
properly.
More needs to be done especially on issues regarding advocacy with the big cooperate companies and the local business owners alongside the beautiful Liido Beach to collective contribute and support in maintaining a clean environment, Scale up of the new vibrant youth volunteers for the cleanup campaigns.
Keep your plastics away from the beach. Next time you go to the seaside, think twice. Make sure you bring eco-friendly packaging, and don’t leave them behind when you go home. Avoid plastic bottles, and little waste items such as straws or food wrappers which are easily blown away by the marine breeze. If you are a smoker, bring your own portable ashtray and avoid burying cigarette butts in the sand – remember they contain plastics!
Raise awareness. Tell your friends, children, parents, colleagues and beach buddies about seaside pollution. Use your social networks to share the #CleanUrCity campaign and spread the word. We need everyone on board for this.
We can all
Help.
We can all
help and be part of this great cause of cleaning our city and beach too, Lets
turn up for the volunteerism and on Fridays cleanup campaign eventually when
the campaign exercise if done you can proudly enjoy and have a good swim. If
you cant make it physically; you can still contribute in supporting with the
buying gloves, Bags for trash collection and rentals for the lorries
transporting the trash from the clean up site. Lets all be the “change we wanna
See” YES its doable and we can do it.
To all the
volunteers who participated the #CleanUrCity campaign, we say THANK YOU.
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