Web Desk: World Cleanup Day is being observed today.
The purpose of observing this day is to bring together people worldwide to clean up and care for their communities.
We aim to activate 5% of the world’s population that will catalyse lasting societal change in behaviour around mismanaged waste.
We invite people from all sectors, from every nation, from all levels of society to join us. Let’s do it – together!
World Cleanup Day has now been added to the official United Nations Calendar of International Days & Weeks from 2024 onwards!
This presents even greater opportunties to unite tens of millions participants in cross-sector cooperation, bringing citizens, governments, and organisations together to tackle the global mismanaged waste crisis and to help create a new, more sustainable and waste-free world.
History
On 8 December 2023, the United Nations General Assembly, in its seventy-eighth session, unanimously adopted resolution 78/122 “World Cleanup Day”, which proclaims 20 September as World Cleanup Day.
The resolution invites all Member States, organizations of the United Nations system, other international and regional organizations, and other relevant stakeholders – including civil society, the private sector and academia – to observe World Cleanup Day through activities aimed at raising awareness of the role clean-up efforts play in sustainable development. The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) facilitates the observance of the Day.
Over the years, many national, regional and local governments and communities have been undertaking clean-up activities globally. World Cleanup Day represents the reflection on their achievements.
The clean-ups serve as a reminder of the collective responsibility we share in preserving and maintaining a clean and healthy environment as well as sustainable waste and resources management.
