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Slovenia launches massive clean-up campaign

25 March 2012 01:45 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. Tens of thousands of Slovenian people were involved in a national clean-up campaign, the third of its kind, on Saturday, demonstrating again the nation’s strong desire for keeping their beautiful and natural environment, APA reports.

More than 240,000 volunteers took part in the country-wide thorough cleaning that mainly focusing on parking lots, public parks and community surroundings, organizers said, noting that some 10,000 tons of waste, including unexpected objects like slaughter waste, unexploded bombs, hand grenades, a smoke bomb and a cannon ball, were removed in the one-day campaign.

With no great fanfare, no banners and no music, this is a much quiet, but well-organized campaign although many people doing in the cleaning could not tell exactly who are really organizers of the activity.

"We saw the call for national cleaning on the public website, and we registered. That’s it." a smiling high-school girl, holding a trash bag, told Xinhua.

In fact, despite its low-profile, the mass clean-up day witnessed a closed cooperation between its sponsor - the NGO Ecologists Without Borders and the local government.

In his meeting with organisers of "Clean Up Slovenia 2012" on Friday, Slovenian President Danilo Turk attached great importance to the nationwide environmental campaign.

The final success of the clean-up campaign would not be achieved until everybody recognises their responsibility for the environment, Turk said.

In addition to the president, at least two government ministers joined the nation-wide work.

Apparently, the call for making clean environment has received a very much positive response from the people of the country, because many of them believe that they are doing a project that will bring benefits to their posterity.

"It’s good for my children, and good for my children’s children," a school girl’s mother said when asked why she took part in the public cleaning.

In cooperation with the national cleaning, some 1,000 members of the Slovenian Armed Forces with more than 80 cargo vehicles were mobilized to join in the weekend clean-up.

In response to the "Clean Up Slovenia 2012" campaign, children from as many as 500 schools and kindergartens throughout the country were organized to clean their surrounding on Friday as a prelude to the campaign.

Janez Lavtizar, a volunteer and organizer of the clean-up campaign in Ljubljana, told Xinhua that at least 600 people throughout the country were mobilized to do the organization work.

On the significance of the project, the middle-aged man said that "It’s not only a thorough cleaning but also a kind of education."

"Through today’s work, those who casually litter trashes may change their bad habit."

More than 270,000 volunteers, or 13.5 percent of the Slovenian population, took part in the first mass clean-up campaign in the country in 2010.

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