What is plogging?
A craze in which you run ('jogging') and pick up trash (taken from the Swedish term “plocka up”).
Plogging is picking up bits of litter, including plastic, while out walking or jogging.
Any litter that doesn't make it into a bin or landfill is quite likely to end up in a drain or a river, and from there journeys ultimately to the sea. From there... well, there's a plastic country three times the size of France floating in the Pacific, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch as it is known, which we really don't need to get any bigger. (Ref The F Team's advice on how to free yourself from plastic)
How to plog:
1. Take a bag, preferably compostible or paper, or reusable if you're prepared to wash it.
2. Be prepared to get a little dirty - take your gardening gloves with you.
3. Wear good shoes - you might find yourself going off road at times, all part of the adventure.
4. Mix up your route - you'll soon find you've cleaned up your street, and the next one, and the next. Strangely, clean environments don't seem to attract as much litter as dirty ones.
5. Recycle as much of the litter as you can.
Benefits: all that stretching, bending, squatting, lifting, in addition to the running/walking. Great for the back, waist, arms and legs, and for the world.
If you don't believe me, google it.
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