Waste art - How to increase awareness - #LocalGuidesCleanTheWorld

[ErmesT]

When we started #LocalGuidesCleanTheWorld, on March 2018, we started from a photo. Colored bottle caps on a beach.

We are Local Guides, sharing photos, beautiful photos, is important for us, and is more important for the Google Maps Users

On the same way, we can choose our best photos on the #LocalGuidesCleanTheWorld campaign, to create awareness about the environment.

I am sharing in this post some of the photos I took on the last two cleanups in Jesolo beach, on January 2020.

It was foggy, on the last clean-up, the lighthouse barely visible on the distance. The people walking on the beach, picking up waste, was appearing as dark shadows on the fog

Plastic straws, the big enemy.

The use of plastic straws is now forbidden in several countries. BTW, they still appearing on the beaches, indelible and persistent memory that will accompany us for many years.

And of course bottles, polystyrene (a lot of polystyrene), and various object.

and flip-flops, a lot of flip-flops too, lost on the beach by barefoot people. We have a whole collection of single flip-flops.

Funny object, puppets, toys, are coming out from the sand, memories of a summertime with some distraction.

We like to take photos of them, and to share that photos, “food for thought”, like the cover of the toys box says.

When we leave, we like to leave the beach “clean and beautiful”, cleaner and more beautiful than we found it.

The content we share can help more if is capturing the attention of the readers.

That’s why I want to ask to the Local Guides who recently had a @CleanTheWorld meet-up, like @CeciliaRatto , @AnaLuciaWine , @KashifMisidia , @br14n

How do you like to document your activity?

And you? @DavidTito ?

[KashifMisidia]

Thank you @ErmesT for tagging me.

I m totally agree with you that documentation of waste material is very important after every #cleantheworld meetup. By this documentation we can analyse that which way we should work more .

In our beaches (in Pakistan) in all clean the beach meetups we mostly found plastic bags (massive quantity) and than plastic bottles and many other plastic waste.

As I always say and try to creat awareness, because if we are just few people, we cannot clean the whole beach , but if we can creat awareness, more people can join as strength.

Thank you so much for initiatives and great steps.

Shukriya

[ErmesT]

Of course @KashifMisidia , documenting is absolutely important.

What I am trying to do now is to document also with some image that can have an impact (let say eye capturing photos) to use on Social Media, increasing the attention about the Environment.

[Muhammad_Usman]

@ErmesT you are lucky living such countries which are clean, people are educated Govt cares about everything if you start a complain on a beach you will find nothing to clean but mostly countries in Africa and some countries in Asia like India Pakistan Afghanistan and Bangladesh there are lot of work to do Govt are usually corrupt and they didn’t do their duties if we start any compain a lot of trucks needed to pull out this garbage so mostly these are only photo sessions and nothing actually happens it’s a bitter truth but unfortunately it’s true

[ErmesT]

Thank you @Muhammad_Usman

BTW, this is a dream in my country too, even if I admit that in my area we are very fortunate. But, again, the goal is create awareness and discomfort.

For this reason I started, two year ago, #LocalGuidesCleanTheWorld .

I want to show a video, of what awareness means for me

LocalGuidesCleanTheWorld Jesolo Beach

[Muhammad_Usman]

@ErmesT after seeing the video I have to say my perseption was wrong your country also don’t have Ideal situation so you also can do a lot of volunteer work, good work keep it up

[ErmesT]

Thank you @Muhammad_Usman

That beach is usually clean enough (not super clean, but acceptable)

But after the storm, we needed to move quickly, so we did it. What was amazing was the reaction of the people, who responded to the call coming in mass to clean-up.

This year, another storm destroyed a big part of the beach, so we restarted to work: #LocalGuidesCleanTheWorld - Cleaning the Beach After the Flood

What I want to do now is to change, improve, the way of communication, trying to use the photo on a more effective way. That’s why I called this post “waste art”

[Cecilita]

Hi dear @ErmesT !!

Thanks for tagging me in this post!! I have a lot of photos we take during the CTW meetup we made in Buenos Aires. I am writing the recap, so it will be avaliable very soon.

I think publishing the photos showing all the trash we found in natural and beautiful places during a cleaning day raise awareness about what we are doing to the place we live. However, I think that having the opportunity to participate in an event like a CTW meetup really makes you realize how sad is what we are doing to our beloved planet.
I think that new generations are already more aware about environment care, but I think that showing children the terrible impact of garbage on the environment is very important for the future.

Following some photos we took in our las CTW meet-up in Buenos Aires.

[ErmesT]

Great photos @CeciliaRatto

I am thinking about waste photos because I think that we should use strange, artists Photos of waste on our communication, trying to invite the people to pay attention to our message, inside and outside the community. Do you agree?

[KarolT]

Hi @ErmesT

If you remember my post about my favorite places in eastern Slovakia, some of them are around the Ružín dam.

Every year it is necessary to clean the amount of waste collected in the dam from the black landfills around.

Here is a link to a local newspaper article:
https://kosice.korzar.sme.sk/c/22264026/vodna-nadrz-ruzin-je-pokryta-odpadkami-norne-steny-pretrhlo.html

There are still people who treat nature as a garbage dump and they don’t care what is left around them.
It is sad…

Karol

[ErmesT]

I know perfectly how the situation is @KarolT

That’s the reason why I am looking for a way to communicate through eye-capturing photos

[system]

@ErmesT

I liked your photos. Your work is very generous. Are you cleaning up the beach? Is this your wish or task? Thanks!

[ErmesT]

@user_not_found

#LocalGuidesCleanTheWorld is a program that I started on March 2018, with actually hundreds of clean-up all around the world.

Just now, our friends on Dhaka are having their own meet-up: Local Guides Clean The World, Dhaka , hosted by @ShafiulB

This is the last of a huge amount of activities that you will find on the worldwide “Mymaps of plastic pollution”, continuously updated by @DavidTito

My last beach clean-up was a few days ago. The most impressive was after the flood, on November 2018, as you can see in the video, or on this post:

RECAP: Clean The World - Puliamo la spiaggia di Jesolo

Next worldwide activity will be on March 6th: Save the date: March 6 is: M’illumino di meno . Do you want to join?

LocalGuidesCleanTheWorld Jesolo Beach

[system]

@ErmesT

It is wonderful. This is the right thing to do. This is a great thing. I want to join, I will try to clear one beach to start with. Tell me, do you think the city authorities should clean up the beach? I know that a person should clean up after themselves. I never litter on the street, and try to use paper bags rather than plastic ones. But most of our stores use plastic bags.

[ErmesT]

Thank you @user_not_found

We do what we can, and we try to do it well.

My feeling is that the people should not litter, at first, and the all the territory should have an authority for keeping it clean.

It is not a simple problem, because it is the result of decades of missing respect.

Now awareness is increasing, but we are late and dramatic decisions will have to be made. We do not have too much time, the world is changing, the signals we have seen this year are impressive. Flowers instead of snow, swans on the Danube in December, a flowered garden in Tallin, and more.

This is what the community is reporting here: A Rose for the Planet

We try to cooperate in this, and our movement is growing up, even if we do not advertise outside of the community and, well, we started one year before Greta

[DavidTito]

@ErmesT firstly that was well introduced, the foggy lighthouse, I was mesmerized between the two, Yes Document is almost like a novel to me #LocalGuides Clean The World. after updating the Local Guides Clean The World - The Map I’m always still in thought imagining every local guide out there working hard.

I shell facilitate this more Perth to help inspire the champaign.

I love to lighthouse photo

[DavidTito]

@ErmesT this video always remains fresh in my mind , just amazing

[system]

@ErmesT

I hate it when people litter. They do it everywhere. Many countries do not care about recycling. I was walking in a beautiful Park. There are many hills. But there’s a lot of garbage on the side of the road. There is a lot of garbage. I agree with you.

There was a lot of garbage in the Park. I photographed and edited the photo. I always clean up after myself. Now I’m beginning to understand the global problem. I have a friend who told me a very good story. He went to rest on the sea (Abkhazia). One local resident cleans the beach 3-5 times a week in the summer. They ask him why. He answered. Tourists come and rent housing from me. If the beach is dirty, no one will like it. Not tourists or residents. It forces local residents and neighbors to remove garbage from the beach as well. Nature must be pure.

Gretta has a political view. As you said. Understanding people deal with waste long before Greta. We all need to think about our own garbage. Make the territory clean, at least where we live.

[ErmesT]

Thank you so much @DavidTito

What do you like more? B&W or a colored version?

[DavidTito]

@ErmesT I like black n white, It gives you that second look appearance. Lighthouse is known for there strength and courage, this one reflects on that, and appears still there,…, color is just something we know

definitely Black n white.