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A woman bending to pick up litter while a man jogs alongside, with a garbage bag, at a plogging event in Kent, England

Plogging is a combination of jogging with picking up litter, merging the Swedish verbs plocka upp (pick up) and jogga (jog) gives the new Swedish verb plogga, from which the word plogging derives. [1] It started as an organized activity in Sweden around 2016 and spread to other countries in 2018, following increased concern about plastic pollution. As a workout, it provides variation in body movements by adding bending, squatting and stretching to the main action of running, hiking, or walking. [2] [3] [4] An estimated 2,000,000 people plog daily in 100 countries and some plogging events have attracted over 3,000,000 participants. [5] [6] [7]

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Similar to plogging, pliking is a combination of picking up litter with hiking and/or biking. [8] [9]

Examples and initiatives

Erik Ahlström started plogging in the Swedish capital city, Stockholm, when he moved there from the Åre ski resort. He created the website Plogga to organise the activity and encourage volunteers. [10]

Author David Sedaris combines litter picking with exercise in the Parham, Coldwaltham and Storrington districts of West Sussex, taking up to 60,000 steps a day in pursuit of local rubbish. [11] He was so effective in keeping his neighbourhood clean that the local authority named a waste vehicle in his honour. [12] The Lord Lieutenant of West Sussex, Susan Pyper, said "The sign on this truck is a very fitting way to say a huge 'thank you' to David for his tireless efforts ... he is a real local hero." [13]

The Keep America Beautiful organisation is now promoting plogging to its affiliates and has found that some already combined exercise with clean up, such as the Trashercize program in Tennessee. [1] In New York, a Meetup group, Plogging NYC, had about 100 members in 2018, with events in four boroughs. [14] In Indianapolis in 2018, a Summer of Plogging was organised by the November Project and the local affiliate of Keep America Beautiful. [15]

There is a group in Oakland, California, called Fit4Good that aims to pick up trash around Lake Merritt each week.

Ripu Daman Bevli, introduced the concept of plogging in India and he is known as the Plogman of India. [16] [17] He commenced Litter Free India movement, which combines Swachh Bharat and FIT India missions. [18] [19] Till March 2021, Bevli has organized more than 500 cleanups across 80 cities under the Litter Free India movement, which has seen a participation of close to 1 crore (10 million) people. [20] The Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has plogged to lead by example for his Swachh Bharat Mission to clean up India. [21] [22]

Benefits

A scientific study from 2022 found that plogging and jogging are comparable in terms of energy expenditure, but that the proportion of energy coming from fat is significantly higher in plogging. [23]

See also

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