The sign-up for the big cleaning day of Estonia begins tomorrow

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The sign-up for the big cleaning day of Estonia begins tomorrow

PRESS RELEASE:

Estonia, Tallinn, 19.03.2008

Starting from tomorrow, it is possible to sign up for the country-wide clean-up day of Estonia, which takes place on 3rd of May 2008. More than 40 000 volunteers are needed to complete the mission to clean whole country from the illegal waste and garbage in just one day.

Civic-initiative "Let's Do It! 2008", repsonsible for the project, will give a press conference tomorrow 11am in Tallinn, Sakala 3.

Subjects of the press conference will be:

Big garbage map of Estonia
At this point of time we have already mapped more than 60 percent of
the illegal garbage in Estonia. The estimated amount of garbage lying
around in Estonia is bigger than first expected ? 10 000 tons, instead
of 7000.

Technological solutions
To make so ambitious project possible we are using state of the art
technological solutions and new combinations. We will demonstrate and
explain them in detail.

Logistics of the clean-up day
Is it really possible to clean up this amount of garbage from the
whole country in just one day? Yes! Our top professionals of the field
have put together a logistics system which makes it possible.

Sign-up for the cleaning day (3rd of May)
We will explain all the details of the sign-up process and to make a
good example we will sign-up together one well-known Estonian for the
clean-up day.

More information on the project, and also the big garbage map of
Estonia is available (in english, russian and estonian) on our
webpage:

www.teeme2008.ee

Need more information or answers to your questions?

Contact:

Tiina Urm
Press Relations
GSM +37259040404
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Let's Do It! 2008