Moving 2 meters further away from a pile of garbage when you are at a picnic doesn’t mean that the dirt is gone. Just because you choose to look the other way doesn’t mean that there aren’t floating ten thousands PETs and bags in the river that fuels the city with water. Just because you don’t take a picture of the mountains of garbage when you are on a holiday doesn’t mean that they aren’t there.
What if we did not look away? What if we took a note in the calendar with a very important date for all of us: tha day hundreds of thousands of Romanians said “Stop!” and they cleaned the country of plastic bags, PETs and papers left over by others, carried by wind and water in Romania’s most beautiful places? We cannot afford buying a cleaner country, and it wouldn’t be possible, but we can clean the one we already have! Let’s clean it all in one day! Let’s be proud starting the next day, as we have a cleaner country, that we wrote the history, that together we took action at least for one day!
One day your children will ask you if you were one of the volunteers „Let’s Do It, Romania!”. Will your answer be „YES” , you have been part of the people that changed in only one day the way a country looked or that there was something interesting to see on TV and you stayed at home? Don’t miss the opportunity to change your country!
Through this project we want to clean the garbage piles from the natural areas of the country, in a single day. The garbage we will identify and clean during this campaign is the dirt thrown away in the natural areas by citizens (either local or tourists). We will not deal with the areas where wastes of utilities have been transported and deposited sistematically (illegal garbage piles). Cleaned natural areas can be on land but also on the water.
Just like the initial actions from Estonia (the country which started the initiative) organized in 2008 and the ones from Latvia in 2009, the action from Romania involvescitizens, local authorities, private firms, cleaning operators, public persons and mass-media to mobilize the people to get out on the established day and clean the waste according to the plan the team has made.
In Romania, the cleaning day is to be set on a Saturday in September 2010.
As long term objectives, the project wants to make the citizens be more responsible concerning the environment and to collaborate with the authorities for the development of the infrastructure and of the fine system.
! To read “The guide of „Let’s Do It, Romania!”” click here
