The clean-up campaign Let’s do it Cyprus announced a new record on Tuesday, saying that 5.5 per cent of the population, more than 46,000 participants, took part in this year’s campaign.
The aim was to surpass 40,000 and prior to the event the organisers said 43,000 had registered.
In 2012, when the campaign was launched for the first time, just 0.4 per cent of the population, roughly 4,000 people, helped to clean the island and since then the numbers have increased every year.
During the April 29 event volunteers were divided into more than 500 teams which collected a total of 4,456 bags of mixed garbage weighing 31,194kg and 2,661 bags of PMD recyclable waste weighing 18,627kg.
In total, 18 per cent of educational institutions took part, 46 kindergartens, 102 primary schools and 29 secondary schools.
Among the volunteers were 16 companies, more than 80 non-governmental organisations and other groups, more than 50 groups of scouts, more than 60 teams of the national guard, and seven teams of divers.
Let’s do it Cyprus is part of the global clean-up campaign Let’s Do It World, the largest volunteer programme aimed at getting rid of rubbish around the world.
It started in 2008 in Estonia, where 50,000 volunteers gathered to clean 10,000 tons of rubbish from roads, beaches and in towns and forests and managed to clean up their entire country in just five hours.
By 2017, more than 16 million volunteers in 113 countries were participating in Let’s do it campaigns.
More than more than 120 tonnes of rubbish have been collected since Cyprus got involved in 2012.
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