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Let's do it! is a movement of people who are ready for action - to make real changes in our regions, our countries, our world, in ourselves. First by mapping and cleaning up the illegal waste littering our countryside. Then by delving deeper into the problems why we are wasting so much. We invite active people in all the countries to come together and team up to clean up their country of illegal waste. By real actions we will kick-start profound positive changes in our minds. Bring in new technologies, bring in the new level of co-operation, and make it happen - inviting the people, state, private enterprises and NGO-s to work together for the same positive goal - a clean country. You can help us to inspire others by downloading and putting up a banner on your site, telling to a friend about us or making a small donation. Just by sending us your positive thoughts and support will help us move along. One person, one country, one day at a time.. to one clean planet. Read more: http://www.letsdoitworld.org/World Waste Map is honest and real - let's show together where the garbage is! It all begins with little steps - let's do more than just notice the waste. Let's put it on a map and create together a powerful tool to communicate the illegal dumping issue. Later, the collected data can be used to prepare the logistics for the local cleanups. http://www.letsdoitworld.org/mapthewaste History  05.05.2008 More than 50 000 volunteers came out yesterday morning to participate in the big clean-up day in Estonia – organized by the civic initiative called Let's Do It! 2008. More than 3% of Estonian population of 1.3 million were out to clean the forest, roadsides and other public areas from illegal waste. More than 40 waste management companies supported the initiative with necessary containers and garbage transportation vehicles. Volunteers had mapped over 10 656 garbage dumping sites all over the country by the beginning of April. Yesterday 207 temporary collecting stations were put up to gather the waste collected by the volunteers. From there the garbage is moved into 17 waste management stations. The initiative aims to recycle up to 80% of the collected waste, making it first massive recycling project in Estonia. The usual amount of garbage recycled in Estonia is 10%, so this is eight times more than the average.
This is the biggest civic initiative since the singing revolution in Estonia. In addition to the 50 000 participants on 3rd of May, there has been a lot of related civic action in recent weeks, influenced by the large media campaign going on all over Estonia during the last month. |
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