Moldova joins World Cleanup Day

Chisinau, 15 September /MOLDPRES/ – The World Cleanup Day is held in Moldova today. Thus, our country joined the initiative with participation of 150 states around the world. However, all citizens are urged to get involved in cleaning up public places in their localities.

Over 380 million people in 150 countries worldwide will participate in cleanup actions under the initiative. Its organisers plan to gather 500 million tons of landfill and public space.

In Moldova, on the World Cleanup Day, the social movement Hai, Moldova aims to mobilise at least 100,000 citizens to collect more than one thousand tons of waste from green spaces and public places across Moldova.

In Chisinau, representatives of local public authorities (APL), together with volunteers of Hai, Moldova, will participate in sanitation and garbage collection actions in parks and public areas.

The authorities of several localities in Moldova announced that they would join the initiative.

Since 2011, the World Cleanup Day is organised in Moldova. The social movement Hai Moldova has managed to convince over 230,000 people to participate in it within years. In April 2011, there were mobilised up to 113 thousand people, and in May 2012 – 111 thousand ones. In March 2018, there were mobilised 10,000 Chisinau citizens, which went out to clean up in the capital. Totally, during this period, Hai, Moldova volunteers collected more than 15,000 tons of garbage from 854 localities from the green spaces. There have joined hundreds of private companies, state institutions and central and local public authorities, public figures and politicians in it.

(Reporter N. Sandu, editor L. Alcaza)