Let’s Do It! World Cleanup and World Waste Map
Kadi KenkHead of Regional Coordinators
Let’s Do It! cleanup model:
First you have 1 country troubled with illegal dumping
Then you have concerned peopleto 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 volunteersMapping of the waste - 300 volunteers, mapping
weekends, special softwareMore than 500 partnersA zero-budget campaign with opinion leaders,
actors, musicians, sportsmenRaising 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: 40 000 volunteers, 5 000 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
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Install app
Step 1 Step 2 Step 3
List Map
Done!
Apps for iPhones and Androids are ready, mapping is also possible manually on our webpage
World Waste Map
World Waste Map
OUR STORY: USING DIGITAL TOOLS FOR ORGANIZING VOLUNTEERS IN HIGH NUMBERS
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•Bosnia & Herzegovina - 100 000 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 - 320 000 volunteers
8.3 M people have participated in actions with this concept over the past 6 years
•Phnom Penh,Cambodia - 5000 volunteers •Portugal - 1% of population •Moldova – 2 years and 400 000 volunt. •Romania - 1% of population •Russia – 3 years and over 500 actions •Serbia - 3% of population •Slovenia – 13,5% population •Ukraine - 400 000 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: www.letsdoitworld.org
TODAY