Let’s Do It! World Cleanup and World Waste Map Kadi Kenk Head of Regional Coordinators

Let’s Do It! cleanup model: First you have 1 country troubled with illegal dumping Then you have concerned people to take up the initiative They start the mapping of the garbage raise the issue in public and invite the whole society to cooperate and clean it all up in just 1 day and HAVE FUN!

Let’s Do It! 2008 in Estonia Preparation time - 7 months Team - more than 600 volunteers Mapping of the waste volunteers, mapping weekends, special software More than 500 partners A zero-budget campaign with opinion leaders, actors, musicians, sportsmen Raising the issue and gaining support of the public and the media

1.Geomapping the trash for planning and logistics 2.Searching for partners from the private, public and NGO sector. They got 90% of services for free 3.Building up a network of local leaders who help to plan and manage the clean-up day 4.Broad media campaign prior to the clean-up action to recruit volunteers and raise public awareness of the dumping and littering problem 5.Registrating volunteers: volunteers, teams 6.Logistics, how to manage the waste collected Raising awareness = mapping

Long term results 1.The amount of illegal waste drastically reduced. 2. New level of public awareness about the waste issues. 3. Successful co-operation experience throughout the whole society. 4. New wave of ambitious civic actions (e.g. World Cleanup)

It’s estimated that there is approx 100 million tons of illegal garbage lying around in the world. Waste is not just an esthetic issue – it’s also about health, cooperation and responsibility. We need to stop looking away from the waste and start looking at it as an unused resource. To build up awareness and start addressing the illegal dumping problem we need to: Monitor the situation in detail; Engage local communities actively in the process; Engage local authorities actively in the process; Analyze the data to design and execute a cooperation action. Global scale

TOOL FOR MAPPING 7 Install app Step 1Step 2 Step 3 List Map Done! Apps for iPhones and Androids are ready, mapping is also possible manually on our webpage

World Waste Map

OUR STORY: USING DIGITAL TOOLS FOR ORGANIZING VOLUNTEERS IN HIGH NUMBERS 10 Bosnia & Herzegovina volunt. Brazil – actions in 10 biggest cities Estonia - 4% of population Finland - 5,6% of population Hungary - 2% of population Latvia – 5 years and million volunteers Lithuania - 5 years and 6% of popul. Bulgaria volunteers 8.3 M people have participated in actions with this concept over the past 6 years Phnom Penh,Cambodia volunteers Portugal - 1% of population Moldova – 2 years and volunt. Romania - 1% of population Russia – 3 years and over 500 actions Serbia - 3% of population Slovenia – 13,5% population Ukraine volunteers

Pros and cons of a virtual garbage map

PROs – all the aforementioned CONs LIMITED to internet Requires smart-phone (easy-use) Manual updating Over-mapping Difficult to combine with similar applications …

World Cleanup 2013 A year for cleanups all around the world – Over 8,3 million volunteers who have cleaned their countries already! More countries joining – we are now over 100 countries and there is room for more More info: TODAY

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