Accra, Sept.19, GNA - The Ghana Wildlife Society in partnership with Let’s Do It Ghana, a civic movement, on Saturday cleared some beaches in Accra including; the Laboma Beach of plastics to protect marine life and aquatic foods for human consumption.

Decathlon, the biggest sports shop in West Africa were part of the participants of the cleanup that took place at the Laboma Beach in Accra on Saturday 19th September to mark the celebration of World Clean Up Day 2020.

Millions of people from at least 158 countries gathered last weekend in their homelands to clean up their communities. 16 countries postponed their cleanups due to COVID-19 or weather conditions and they will do World Cleanup Day during the next few weeks. This made World Cleanup Day the biggest mobilising live event in 2020.

 Millions of people from up to 180 countries have pledged to participate on World Cleanup Day held on Saturday, September 19. A 24-hour green wave of cleanups is stretched across the planet beginning in Australia and ending in Hawaii. Besides the general cleanup goal, the aim is to collect 1 billion cigarette butts.

This year’s World Clean Up Day was held in Ghana with Clean Up Exercises in various places, notably Laboma Beach in Accra, Cape Coast, Koforidua, Kumasi and Aburi Mountains.Some organisations who contributed were Friends of Nature, Green Africa Youth Organisation, Play Soccer Ghana, distinguished Ambassadors and volunteers.The programme was held in collaboration with ANOCA with support of other bodies.

Let’s Do It Ghana, an environmental non-governmental organisation has organised a capacity-building training for its regional coordinators in Accra.

The training was aimed at preparing the 10 regional coordinators towards the World Cleanup Day on 15th September, 2018.

The coordinators were trained on how to use a Mobile App developed by Let’s Do It World to map trash points and illegal dumpsites.