The World Cleanup Day on Saturday is an initiative that has got millions into the streets and cleaning up litter across the globe since it began just over a decade ago.Youth leading wayThe mass cleanup is coordinated by the LetDo It Foundation, which began life in Estonia and says that 18 million people from 157 countries participated in the global cleanup day last year..Seventy-nine percent of the plastic ever made has ended up dumped, with little reused or destroyed despite recycling and other initiatives to curb use, a UN report from 2018 said.Young people have been at the forefront of the movement, with masses of children skipping school on Friday for a global climate strike, which teen activist Greta Thunberg said was "only the beginning".

It knows no state borders," said the organisationpresident Heidi Solba in a statement. This year, it says more than 160 countries are taking part.Mart Normet, leader of the initiative in Estonia, said he drew hope from the enthusiasm of young people."The conditions for a non-violent march are not in place," Greenpeace, a co-organiser of the event, said on Twitter, as police fired teargas at protesters.In the Pacific island nation of Fiji, which is among the countries worst China Heat Shrink Sleeve Packaging affected by sea level rises and has become a vocal advocate for global climate action, people scoured palm-fringed beaches west of the capital Suva, heaving discarded car tyres and engine parts from the coast.Campaigners took part in World Cleanup Day from Manila to the Mediterranean, as hundreds of thousands of people across the world take part in demonstrations and activities calling for urgent action on the environment."A landmark UN report to be unveiled next week will warn global warming and pollution are ravaging Earthoceans and icy regions in ways that could unleash misery on a global scale.

UN chief Antonio Guterres met young activists in New York on Saturday, telling them: "There is a change in momentum."When I look at the new photos on Facebook, I can see that the new generation is bringing a completely new attitude.Some four million people filled city streets around the world on Friday, organisers said, in what was billed as the biggest ever protest against the threat posed to the planet by rising temperatures.In Vietnamcapital Hanoi, around 1,400 volunteers went searching for litter under the scorching sun.It kicked off a week of climate action called for by Thunberg, who was among several hundred young activists attending a climate summit at the United Nations on Saturday.Fridaystrike organisers 350.Thousands of volunteers wielding nets and bin bags scoured coasts, parks and riverbanks across the globe Saturday, in a litter-picking drive highlighting the vast quantity of trash dumped worldwide, a day after mass international climate protests.