How many times have we not been in a beautiful place only to come across litter that is totally out of place? How many times have we not wanted to have a bag to remove the trash?
Now, the Ministry of Defense has put a name to a practice that should be the national sport: Plogging. Plogging is about donning gloves, sneakers and walking or hiking clothes and picking up plastics, discarded facial masks and other rubbish on the way.
El Nuevo Diario reports that military and civilian joggers have made a routine of the practice. The Armed Forces wants to encourage more people to do the same.
Actually, the sport is not Dominican-made. It began in Sweden in 2016. It is born of the present global concern with the indiscriminate disposal of plastic wastes. The term “plogging” is a combination of jogging and the Swedish term ‘plocka upp.”
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El Nuevo Diario
Wikipedia
KAB
6 July 2021