Every 1st Sunday of the month is River Sunday

June 14, 2020

Every year over 8 billion kilograms of trash enters our oceans, 80% comes from rivers! Our ambition is to stop this! In order to do so we need to make as many people as possible aware of the issue.

 

When you pick up someone else's trash

Something changes

you change

 

You start to see the trash, and you become part of the solution.

Join us on river-cleanup.org/en/river-sunday!

 

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