Clean Games Baltic Cup 2020: a one-hour challenge to clean the Baltic Sea region
For the second year, on 19th September, people from all over the Baltic Sea Region will take part in the Clean Games Baltic Cup [1], a one-hour challenge aiming at cleaning up and collecting the most amount of garbage from green and coastal areas.
The tournament will be interactive through the use of a mobile app [2], allowing the participants – divided into different teams – to follow a map where the littered areas in their cities are marked. The teams will compete with each other in their city and also in the whole tournament, while the organizers will give them the scores. All results and rating will be available in an online scoreboard and the winner will get the cup.
“ Council of the Baltic Sea States appreciates Clean Games’ efforts to involve youth in the activities related to the sustainable development of the Baltic Sea region. We consider their game method of garbage collection is a good method for involving people in raising the awareness among young people about the importance of environmental voluntarism and encouraging them to be active in solving the environmental challenges ”, said Daria Akhutina, the Head of Priority Area Sustainable & Prosperous Region at CBSS Secretariat.
In 2019, 578 players from six countries (Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Belarus and Ukraine) collected more than 8 tons of garbage, which were separately collected and sent for recycling.
“ We were partners of the CLEAN GAMES BALTIC CUP 2019 volunteer tournament, and after their report at the General Conference of the Union of Baltic Cities in October 2019 in Kaunas (Lithuania), members of the Union of the Baltic Cities were satisfied with the results of this tournament. We’re supporting Clean Games Baltic Cup 2020 and the following tournaments in the region ”, said Paweł Żaboklicki, Union of the Baltic Cities Secretary General.
“ We believe that if you’ll do a clean-up once, you will litter less. And our goal is to attract as many people to the clean-ups as possible. In order to do that, we developed this format. Our games are a fun way to talk about serious problems. Many people don’t want to participate in community work days. It sounds like a job. So we make a holiday for them. A fun game to play with friends and families. It attracts the attention of local communities, city administration, and socially responsible businesses ”, affirmed Dmitry Ioffe, the chairman of the Clean Games organization [3].
The Clean Games Baltic Cup is partnered with the World Cleanup Day by Let’s do it ! Foundation and the Great Global Cleanup by Earth Day. Participants can use the guidelines of both Clean Games’ and the partners’ cleanups. The partners of the Clean Games Baltic Cup are the Council of the Baltic Seas States , Union of the Baltic Cities , Coalition Clean Baltic , Baltic University Programme, Regeneration 2030 , Baltic Sea Challenge , Ars Baltica.
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Additional info
Read the PR about the final results here.
Since 2014, 853 games were played in more than 300 cities in 17 countries (Belarus, Bulgaria, China, Estonia, Georgia, India, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Malaysia, Nigeria, Poland, Ukraine, Venezuela, Vietnam). 59 000+ participants collected 1200+ tons of garbage. All future games are announced on the Clean Games Facebook page
and the website cleangames.org For more information: press@cleangames.ru
Video about Clean Games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR6VU0NNkAk
Photos: https://yadi.sk/d/5gWgVDEIND7DZQ?w=1 [CCB1]
Website of the Baltic Clean Cup: https://balticcup.org/
Website of the Clean Games: https://cleangames.org/
Contact person
Anastasia Cheglakova, PR-manager assistant
E-mail: press2@cleangames.ru
