Completing the world’s most comprehensive illegal dumpsite registry and waste map with data from national waste registers and crowd sourced technological tools
Addressing the lack of social responsibility and awareness on environmental issues in the society
Supporting local and regional authorities to make additional efforts to fully implement and enforce the existing or proposed waste legislation in their countries.
The ambitious goal is to mobilise 5% of every community in 150 countries to clean up trash in a single day.
Additionally, the global network is working with experts and partners to propose a clean world plan. A plan to keep the planet clean, not only by cleanups, but by working on ways to stop waste entering the environment and in the long run to stop producing so much waste.
Three simple steps
While the network already operates in over 100 countries, , the central coordinator of the Let’s Do It Foundation is looking for and supporting leaders who are able to take up the organising nation wide campaigns. Today, nearly 100 leaders have been identified. Many with the help of the global partner JCI (www.jci.cc), but the work continues. The most up to date status on country teams is found at www.letsdoitworld.org.
On the technical side, the world’s largest and only updated garbage database makes data on pollution in all countries comparable, and can be used for long-term planning in legislative processes, life-cycle analysis and product design in corporate settings.
The support from the public makes the enforcement of new laws easier and more efficient. Currently the first stage of development is underway to enable pilot mappings this spring. This will test the marking of polluted areas by size and composition.
In the long run the waste map should illustrate how much of a country is mapped and provide an specially developed trash index for each. Future plans entail the development of a location based event management tool and a waste and materials management tool for the development of the Circular Economy.
On World Cleanup Day, the network will be in full working mode and at least 1 billion people exposed to information about the issue.
Future plans
It is extremely important to understand, that the way we are consuming and disposing of things, is wasteful and irresponsible. The Let’s Do It Foundation together with partners such as ISWA and JCI (Junior Chamber International) will be working on long term plans and projects around sustainable waste management to implement a Circular Economy. It will be a major cooperation effort of all sectors of society.
The world’s largest and most comprehensive waste database, formed with the help of partners and volunteer inputs, will be serving as a tool to help decision makers design the most supportive legal framework for waste free communities. It will also give the private sector a powerful tool to manage their resources most efficiently and avoid litter and waste leaking from the waste management systems.
Using the word’s of Rainer Nõlvak, the founder of Let’s Do It country cleanup model: “To clean up the planet, all of us need to succeed. We all need to build up our teams of great people. Figure out how do we make everyone in the country aware of the cleanup day. How do we engage with government and businesses. Forge partnerships. Then, we’ll map the waste. And we’ll clean it all up!”.
To move forward, we need help with finding the right kind of leaders – people who recognise their responsibility for the well being of their country and make this cause their own. But also forward thinking businesses who take up managing waste on the World Cleanup Day and helping to implement most sustainable systems to keep waste leaking into our nature.
To become a partner, look up your national teams at www.letsdoitworld.org or contact Kadi Kenk, the Head of Partnerships for World Cleanup Day. kadi@letsdoitworld.org.
