2 million kg of trash collected!

The Trash Hero movement has recently reached a very important milestone on the journey to zero-waste: more than 2 MILLION KG of trash collected! As of 30 June 2021:

• We have engaged 391,791 volunteers, including 98,341 kids.
• We have done 13,598 cleanups, collecting 2,005,774 kg of trash.
• We are active in 162 locations in 20 countries around the world.
• Our bottle programme has distributed 102,129 bottles, avoiding 37.3 million single-use plastic bottles and 1,940 tons of CO2 emissions.
• 27,360 reusable bags have been distributed, saving 10 million plastic bags.

But, where are those numbers coming from? Every Trash Hero chapter posts their cleanup results on social media and uploads the data directly to a central collection point. Anyone can check the data live on our website: https://trashhero.org/our-network/.

All these achievements are down to the hundreds of thousands of people that have gotten us this far: picking up, sorting and auditing waste, educating others about plastic pollution and creating momentum for wider change.

Watch the video below to see how our volunteers are sharing the great news: