Cancun Today

By Kat Morgenstern, Sacred Earth Travel

Tourists are often accused of leaving their mess everywhere and adding to local waste management problems. Garbage is unsightly no matter whether it happens to lie around on our doorstep or outside the hotel room, or on the beach. Some tourists around the world have started initiatives to clean up after themselves.

Volunteers regularly clean up the Inca Trail; tourist powered beach cleaning committees are helping to clean up Italian beaches, and even the Everest Trek is cleaned with the help of tourists. On ‘Clean Up the World Days’ 14-16th of September we can all make a difference to wherever we happen to be in the world, and show that we care — as citizens of the global village.

This is a global initiative – if you look at the website you might find an event taking place near you. If not, join up and organize one yourself!

Clean Up the World partners with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to inspire communities to “clean up, fix up and conserve their local environment” through activities ranging from waste removal and tree planting to water and energy conservation projects.Clean Up the World mobilizes an estimated 35 million volunteers from more than 100 countries annually.

Getting involved is simple. Groups in any city, town or village across the globe can become a Clean Up the World Member. Membership is free for non corporate Members and renewable annually.

Since the first Clean Up the World campaign in 1993, the improvements achieved due to the efforts of millions of concerned volunteers around the world have been astounding.

Clean Up the World Members participate in a range of Clean Up and Fix Up Projects, either in conjunction with the Clean Up the World Weekend (always the 3rd weekend in September ) or as part of a longer-term environmental project. Some examples of Clean Up the World Activities include:

• Recycling and resource recovery
• Tree planting
• Education campaigns
• Water reuse and conservation
• Competitions
• Exhibitions.

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