10 October 2016 – Trash Hero Portraits on Show
The Atelier Wasserart in Dettenheim (Germany) is a place dedicated to all things surrounding water. The Atelier is currently showcasing stories of Trash Heroes from all around the world, in the hopes that visitors will go away determined to reduce their own consumption of plastics.
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September 26, 2016 – Trash Hero Myanmar
Trash Hero Myanmar cleaned Ngwe Saung with 380 people and collected a total of 3’900 kg of trash. The organisers are hoping to start various cleanups in the country.
All photos and recent information on cleanups can be found on their Facebook page here.
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27 September 2016 – Trash Hero Langkawi (Malaysia)
Trash Hero Langkawi (Malaysia) has just been covered in a segment on the radio. Listen to it here.
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September 26, 2016 – Trash Hero Amed, Indonesia
Another project we discussed in our newsletter to sponsors released this week is the community waste management that Trash Hero World supported with 1’200 USD in Amed, Indonesia. Historically, in small and rural communities trash and other waste is burned – but this system is no longer viable in many areas of the world. The system simply cannot cope with the never-ending volume and the amount of plastic and other toxins in modern waste makes burning and burying this garbage potentially dangerous for animals, people and the environment.
September 26, 2016 – Trash Hero Indonesia
A third project Trash Hero World communicated to its donors was the T-Shirts that were purchased for Trash Hero Indonesia, which cost USD 1’500.
Before communities can be properly educated about the importance of waste management and recycling, awareness must already be there. 6 Trash Hero chapters (Komodo, Amed, Sanur, Ubud, Candidasa, Canggu) from Indonesia are now selling t-shirts, at no profit, in both the local language and English – all in an effort to root and spread this message. An excellent advertising tool in the Southeast Asian market, Trash Hero World has provided 500 shirts and it’s become a fashionable item of pride among many local people. Once the chapters sell the shirts they have enough money to order a new lot.
14 September 2016 – Trash Hero World
Trash Hero World is proud to be among a group of 90 NGOs, who just laid out a groundbreaking new global vision for a future free from plastic pollution. The vision lays out 10 principles. This represents the first step in a global movement to change society’s perception and use of plastics.
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10 September 2016 – Trash Hero World
Trash Hero World is proud to have been asked, along with 5 other global organisations, to co-sign a letter to the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Read the letter here.
This honour is the result of our ongoing friendship with Let’s Do It World . Roman Peter attended their Leaders Academy in August 2016 in Estonia to learn about the plan for the World Cleanup Day on 8 September 2018. The plan is to clean up the entire world in one, massive cleanup day, with 150 countries and 380 million people. Join the Let’s Do It Movement here.
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15 June 2016 – Trash Hero Bangkok
During our first cleanup in Bangkok just recently some of our Trash Heroes took to the water and collected trash while on standup paddle boards. How awesome is that?