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6 million citizens clean up garbage worldwide but overlook political capitals
by staff report via sam - AFP Friday, Jan 11 2013, 9:18am
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It is commendable that so many international citizens are conscious of hygiene and garbage; a staggering SIX million people worldwide mobilized to pick up and remove discarded refuse -- yet we are struck but a monumental oversight, not one political capital was cleared of its human criminal vermin and murdering corrupt filth, especially in developed western nations.

I find it extremely offensive that so many international morons missed the point and failed to recognise what real filth is and the consequences of allowing human garbage/pollution to continue wreaking havoc on our world and dramatically impacting the lives of millions of innocent civilians.

Is it a case of mindless automatism, or is the global population truly this vacuum-headed regarding the critical issues of our time? If we can recognise a paper bag not placed in a bin why can't we, as a global population, recognise the most virulent pollution on the planet -- the corrupt, murdering criminal vermin that occupy our political and commercial capitals?

Story from AFP follows:

More than six million volunteers from 96 countries collected an unprecedented 100,000 tonnes of garbage last year as part of a global, web-driven clean-up campaign, cyber-environmentalists said Friday.

“Last year the most astonishing numbers of volunteers attended clean-ups in Sweden, Bulgaria and in Slovenia,” Tiina Urm, spokeswoman for World Cleanup 2012 told AFP.

Nearly 700,000 Swedes, 322,000 Bulgarians and 265,000 Slovenians turned out to clear trash, often illegally dumped garbage, pinpointed with special software using Google Maps.

“In the last five years seven million volunteers have attended our clean-up actions,” Urm said.

The Let’s Do It! campaign started in 2008 in Estonia, where organisers created special software to map and photograph over 10,000 illegal garbage dumps across the Nordic nation of 1.3 million people.

In what proved an unexpected success, over 50,000 volunteers collected 10,000 tonnes of illegal garbage from roadsides, forests and towns in just five hours.

Backers of the clean-up campaign say the world is drowning in 100 million tonnes of illegally dumped trash.

A global cyber-environmentalist meeting to be held in Tallinn in February will focus on ways to expand the global clean-up.

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