Britain wins first place at the first SpoGomi World Cup World Cup in garbage collection among 21 teams. The championship was held in Tokyo. The initiative is aimed at to raise awareness of environmental issues. This was reported by Reuters, according to UNN.
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The teams spent 90 minutes searching for waste and then sorted what they found into appropriate categories.
The British team The North Will Rise Again beat Japan, which took second place, earning 9046.1 points for collecting 57.27 kilograms of garbage.
may have been more environmentally friendly and less athletic, and we're probably the opposite, but we've taken so much about how much we need to clean up our oceans and reduce litter
Japan's famously high standards of hygiene and cleanliness made finding trash a challenge for some competitors.
Sometimes it was really hard because there was not really a lot of garbage,
Background
The name SpoGomi comes from the merger of the abbreviation for "sport" with the Japanese word for and the Japanese word "gomi", which means garbage.
Invented in 2008 to encourage people to pick up trash in public places, it has gained popularity public places, it has become so popular that this year in Japan about 230 competitions were held in Japan this year.
Organizers Nippon Foundation stated that the World Cup was held to raise awareness of environmental issues, in particular plastic pollution in the oceans.
First of all, it is important to make people who are not yet aware of the problem of marine waste, to realize the situation with garbage in the ocean
The second world championship is scheduled for 2025.