A half an hour every morning.
Tommy Kleyn is an artist from Rotterdam, Netherlands. Every morning on his bike to work, he would pass a section of the Rotterdam riverway where trash had collected at the banks. He decided to spend a half hour every day filling one garbage
bag full of trash.
After he posted the images on Facebook, he even got some help from his friends. All it took was filling up one garbage bag at a time until the work was done!
The support from people has turned into a small movement on social media. Kleyn has set up a Facebook page called
ShoneShie:
Take 30 minutes out of your year to fill a trash bag with litter. It feels great and you'll make a big impact. Send us your before and after pics!
People are doing just that! From places as far away as Taiwan, Kleyn is receiving photos and stories of communities beginning to clean their waterways. Other
Facebook pages have sprung up
as well. This is nice to see and inspiring.