for UNA-UK Newbury event at 17-Nov-2019

1. Climate and Environment
Global Problems Local Solutions
An initiative which began in Estonia
in 2008.
50,000 people worked together to
clean up the entire country
in just 5 hours.
(garbage on the roadsides, in the
woods and on the beaches)
(mismanaged solid waste)
In 2011 the idea to spread this
model ended up with:
Let’s Do It Foundation
https://www.letsdoitworld.org/
Goal – a clean and healthy planet.
And a special event called:
World Clean-up Day
First happened Sept. 15th 2018:
36 hour green wave of clean-ups,
17 million people in 157 countries

2. “Let's do it!”
www.letsdoitworld.org

3. Technological solutions to map and
deal with waste
waste mapping
AI (artificial intelligence) to spot trash
in partnership with Microsoft.
algorithm for detecting trash in geo-
located images.
images collected through the World
Cleanup App and scraped from
Google Street View.
Object detection, Training the machine
learning model.
https://github.com/letsdoitworld/World-Cleanup-Day

4. Co-operative labour systems – the concept
and the word in different languages
Historically - where groups of neighbours help each other in turn
with farming work such as harvesting crops

5. “Talgud” in Estonia

6. Is the bee dead?
in agriculture, it might

7. Modern bee: cleaning the planet

8. World Clean-up Days (since 2018)
 World Clean-up Day 2019
engaged more volunteers than ever
 20 million people (on September 21st 2019)
 https://www.worldcleanupday.org/