More than 200 representatives from 70 nations and various environmental protection organisations gathered at this year’s “Clean World Conference” from 24 to 27 January 2019.
The conference was organized in Tallinn, Estonia by the “Let’s Do It Foundation”, with the purpose of sharing experience from World Cleanup Day, held on 15 September last year; taking the next steps to implement the follow-up “Keep It Clean” plan; and determining the organiser of the next World Cleanup Day.
Trash Hero took part in the conference, represented by Roman Peter, co-founder of Trash Hero World; and Rima Agustina and Sebastian Roschkowski from Trash Hero Indonesia. Trash Hero was an official community partner at World Cleanup Day last year and will be again this coming year.
The conference was opened by Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid, who stressed the importance of consumers’ behaviour and purchasing habits in moving towards more sustainable industry and business practices. The opening was followed by an introductory speech by expert in policy making, Clarissa Charlotte Morawski from Reloop Platform; representative of organised civil society and vice president of Global Earth Day, Valeria Merino; and general manager of Toyota Motor Europe, Stephen Hope.
The main topic of the first day of the conference was the “Keep It Clean” plan and its implementation in various sectors. Additionally, educational projects and awareness-raising campaigns to address the problem of mismanaged waste on a local and global level were also discussed.
The second day of the conference focused on summaries of the World Cleanup Day held on 15 Sept 2018. Five country team leaders shared their success stories: Agustina Iskandar (Indonesia), who led 7.68 million people participating in the initiative in the country; Aijan Chynybaeva (Kyrgyzstan), who managed to involve 7 percent of the country’s population; Luan Hasanaj, who was responsible for the 10.6 percent of Kosovo’s population that took part in the event; Nima Zare (Iran), who organised cleanups in difficult conditions of political unrest but successfully motivated 144,000 people to participate in the cause; and Carlos Serra (Mozambique), who shared about his experience in engaging and educating young people on the issues.
Trash Hero co-founder, Roman Peter, was invited as a panelist in the discussion of “How to make World Cleanup Day more impactful? How to use it as awareness building tool about waste problem?”, with the key question of “should we continue cleaning up?”. Roman answered clearly “yes.” Further, he explained that Trash Hero will continue to do cleanups, as we see directly that they are a valuable educational tool that opens the door to behaviour change. “For us, this is the only way to finally stop cleaning up in the future,” he added.
Trash Hero believes this year has the perfect momentum for the planet to shift in the right direction. We are happy to be part of it and we look forward to continue supporting the initiatives in the future.
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Some livestream videos of the conference can be seen below:
Panel discussion of “How to make World Cleanup Day more impactful? How to use it as awareness building tool about waste problem?”
https://www.facebook.com/trashheroindonesia/videos/747318285648476
World Cleanup Day Indonesia’s leader, Agustina’s speech:
Agustina Iskandar, the leader of World Cleanup Day Indonesia gives a speech about success story of Indonesia to the world in Clean World Conference 2019 in Tallinn, Estonia. #LetsDoIt #WCW2019
Gepostet von Trash Hero Indonesia am Freitag, 25. Januar 2019
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Join the conversationjey - 04/04/2019
I am interested to join the Trash Hero Malaysia because in my organization I am the Environmental Management Representative and if possible would like to join the activities carried out and later on I will try to motivate some of my EMS committiee members to join