The internet savvy environmentalists, ranging from Cambodia to Brazil are now making use of the services of Google Earth for a very good cause. They are taking advantage of its illustrative software in order to identify and take action against the trash which has collected on the countryside. All these preparations are taking place on a higher pace, than normal, as they all put all their feet in to make World Cleanup 2012 a successful event, reported the organizers on Friday.
Image via Wikipedia The spokesperson for the event, Tiina Urm, told the AFP that the "Preparations for World Cleanup 2012 that were launched in February are being lead at the moment by a 50-member international team in 30 countries." Urm reported that the clean-up day for Estonians, is scheduled on Saturday as the organization "aims to expand the project to at least 70 more countries."
Urm also identified that this past Friday was cleaning day for Finland, as the volunteers of Russia and Brazil wait for the 15th of May. She said that since the accomplishment of "Let's do it" in Estonia in 2008, the organization has altogether gathered a total of 50,000 volunteers which are carefully assigned relevant areas acquiring the services of Internet for collecting 10,000 tonnes of illegally dumped trash in one day. The organizers are expecting to accumulatively maneuver 300 million people in 100 different countries worldwide and be able to collect and dispose 100 million tonnes of trash in the year of 2012.
Back in 2007, some of the Estonian leading Internet users like Ahti Heinla, who has worked for Skype, and Microlink, founder Rainer Nolvak, equipped the organization with the facilities of Google Earth and GPS-equipped mobile phones which helped them to map and take photos of 11,000 illegal garbage dumps spread over a total useful area of 45,227 square kilometres of Estonia. Later the volunteers were instructed in forms of team, to each destination, and step by step the volunteers successfully collected most of the located trash with relative ease.
The whole nation seemed very sentimental over this issue, as a former Estonian member of parliament, Toomas Trapido also spoke with the AFP and informed them that "Our aim was not only to clean, but also to return people the feeling that it's not only politicians who have responsibility, but that all of us can take action." Furthermore, he added that "By now Estonia's best practice has been followed by 1.5 million people in 11 countries, including Portugal, Slovenia, Ukraine, Romania but also in India, Cambodia and elsewhere.”
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