Volunteers to help ‘clean Up the World’

The campaign is held in response to the international “Clean Up the World Day” that falls on the third weekend of September every year.

The activities will enhance the environmental protection and conservation drive marking Earth Day in April when volunteers scoop up 15 metric tons of garbage on beaches in seven counties and cities, according to an official of the Society of Wilderness.

The Good Neighbors Foundation will organize several hundred volunteers to pick up rubbish in the swamps near the seashore forest of Guangdu in Danshui of Taipei County today.

Guangdu is one of the stops of the mass rapid transit (MRT) network on the Danshui line in the Greater Taipei area.

The volunteers of Tainan Social Community University have launched a campaign to regularly clean up the shoreline in southern Tainan region once a month for three years.

Members of the group will go to the exit mouth of Erren Creek to gather up rubbish on Sunday before the garbage is flushed into the see.

They expressed hope that more people will refrain from recklessly throw away rubbish and join the cleanup campaign to help turn the murky sea water on the coast back to the natural color of blue.

The campaign will also help provide a safe environment for people enjoying recreational activities on beaches and shorelines, they said.

Some other groups have organized trips to mountain areas to join the campaign.

An estimated 35 million volunteers in 120 nations will comb the beaches and mountain regions around the world over the weekend.

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