«TazaBISH» action devoted to the World Week «Clean Up the World»
September 27, 2016, 06:00
On Saturday early morning (September, 24) regular action "TazaBISH" (Clean Bishkek), dedicated to the annual World Week "Clean Up the World" (September 21-27) took place at the territory of Chui Channel (Sovetskaya Str.).
The administration of Sverdlov district, Department of Water Resources, local territorial administration, as well as the staff of International Public Foundation "Roza Otunbayeva Initiative" and the youth movement "Kadamjay". Within the framework of the action, the participants cleared out the coastal area Big Chui Canal.
The action "Clean Up the World", which received the status of the Worldwide, first held in September 1993, the inhabitants of Australia massively step out to clean up the ocean beaches. Gradually the action was joined by other countries, and nowadays, it has involved millions of volunteers from 100 countries around the world.
The main purpose of such actions is to draw people's attention to the problems of environmental pollution and littering the planet, as well as develop their skills in the economic relations to the environment and to raise the level of ecological culture and literacy.
"Mankind will not perish in a nuclear nightmare, it would suffocate in their own waste," - said once known physicist Niels Bohr.
By organizing this and other similar global environmental actions, ecologists and activists are struggling not to make Bora's words prophetic …
