Internet challenges have come in all shapes and sizes, from the seemingly pointless planking, the seriously dangerous Tidepod challenge, and both pointless and dangerous In My Feelings craze.
And while some viral trends can be hugely beneficial, they can often have downsides too – even the Ice Bucket challenge, which raised millions of dollars for the ALS Association, injured more than a few (clumsy) people.
Now, however, we may just have the internet challenge we’ve all been waiting for – the Trashtag challenge.
It’s not pointless, it’s not dangerous (though I’m sure someone will find a way), and – best of all – it actually has a hugely positive impact on society, which makes a nice change for an internet challenge as – to put it lightly – most of them make you despair for humanity.
To take part in the Trashtag challenge, people have been sharing before and after pictures of an area of land – beaches, fields, lay-bys etc – that were filled with litter and trash, which they’ve then cleaned and picked up all the litter.
In 2015, after watching his childhood beach devastated by trash, @AfrozShah_ took matters into his own hands. What started off as a personal mission turned into the largest beach cleanup in the world. Three years later, the community had cleared over 6,000 tons of trash off of Mumbai’s Versova Beach.
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Join the challenge #trashtag, photo from the cleaning 09/09/18. There are no pictures from one particular place “before and after”, but we will change this, when the snow melts.
Publishing photos of the results in social networks can motivate many people to scavenge in nature. Great Challenge!
Not only does the Trashtag challenge encourage people to do some good, it will also shame those people who think it’s fine to just drop litter or leave a pile of rubbish at the beach, for example.
It’s not fine, and it’s why thousands of schoolchildren have been leaving school and protesting climate change recently – because they care about the environment and want to.
It’s the only outdoors we have. We all use it for many different things but it is the only one we have. So let’s all do our part and treat it with respect. Let’s pick up after ourselves and then pick up extra. It only takes a few minutes of your time to pick up something that’ll far outlast us humans if left alone.
We’re the ones who get can pass it along to those who will come after us in better shape than we found.
We can be better than this.
I found this plastic bag stuck in a bush near our campsite and decided to put it to use. Inside is every plastic shot gun shell I could find along with every piece of plastic and trash I could see within our campsite. This excludes the countless amount of spent ammo casings and glass bottles thrown into fire pits and used as targets that are nearly impossible to collect.
It’s the only outdoors we have. We all use it for many different things but it is the only one we have. So let’s all do our part and treat it with respect. Let’s pick up after ourselves and then pick up extra. It only takes a few minutes of your time to pick up something that’ll far outlast us humans if left alone.
We’re the ones who get can pass it along to those who will come after us in better shape than we found it.
Source: https://www.unilad.co.uk/viral/people-are-cleaning-up-the-planet-in-viral-trashtag-challenge/
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