Let's Do It! Clean World News
June 2017

More Than a Million Volunteers Cleaned up Trash Weighing More Than 200 Boeing 737 Aircrafts

Cleanup in Croatia. Photo: Let's Do It! Croatia 

Around 1 million Let’s Do It! activists in 14 countries helped the planet become cleaner by participating in massive cleanup actions from April to June. Volunteers collected around 9000 tonnes of waste, equivalent to more than 200 Boeing 737 airplanes. Jérôme Scherer is bringing us the latest cleanup discussions, visions for the time after World Cleanup Day and much more. Read the article here.

“All You’ll Regret Is Not Having Started Earlier” – Bea Johnson and the Zero Waste Lifestyle

Bea Johnson with Zizou the dog. Photo: ZeroWasteHome.com

We are very excited to share with you our interview with Bea Johnson, author of the blog and bestselling book Zero Waste Home. Bea has been shattering preconceptions attached to a lifestyle of environmental consciousness through her blog and speaking tours. “People didn’t know what a zero waste lifestyle meant”, Bea recalls the public's view on her lifestyle back in 2000s: “you had to be a hippie living in the woods.” It wasn’t until a nine-page magazine spread with pictures of their family and their beautiful home was published that people started reaching out to them. Bea and her family soon became the faces of the zero waste lifestyle. What are the 5R’s of zero waste and in which order should they be implemented? How to keep things simple and make the most of zero waste lifestyle? Bea leads the way!

Meet the Humans of Let's Do It!

Image: Let's Do It! World

Introducing you our new project: Humans of Let’s Do It! Based on Humans of New York, the idea is to show the diversity of people involved in Let's Do It!. Because Let's Do It! is all about the people who are joining us, we think it would be nice to put them on the spotlight! To do that, every Wednesday we are sharing a short story of someone who has participated in a Let’s Do It! action. Meet the Humans of Let’s Do It! here. 

Let’s Do It! Mentorship Program – Who Mentors the Mentors?

Mentor extraordinaire Nara Petrovic 

"An international powerhouse of determination, knowhow and leadership. As the mentorship programme expands with the network, the organisation becomes stronger and the support systems and repositories of knowledge grow." Paul Emmet, one of the mentors of Let’s Do It! Mentorship Program reports from Tirana, Albania where mentors from different countries gathered with the aim of improving sharing the know-how and best practices within the Let’s Do It! movement. 

A Million Bottles a Minute: World's Plastic Binge 'as Dangerous as Climate Change'

A million plastic bottles are bought around the world every minute and the number will jump another 20% by 2021, creating an environmental crisis some campaigners predict will be as serious as climate change. Figures obtained by the Guardian reveal the surge in usage of plastic bottles, more than half a trillion of which will be sold annually by the end of the decade. It's time to be the change!

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