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A quick 15 minutes cleanup the morning after New Years Eve and two big bags of trash collected 🫣

Happy New Year everyone 🥳

I hope we will need to look harder for these amounts of trash during the year of 2026❗️

My focus the last couple of months has been on creating a new organization of volunteering trashheroes called Plogging København.

Please follow this new project of mine, where I am trying to gather volunteering forces in the caoital of Denmark.

➡️ Follow Plogging København

Me and some other volunteers has started a new initiative in Copenhagen 🚮🌱

Go check it out through the QR-code or and give it a follow 🙏

A lovely summer holiday in Japan and South Korea with my family is over 🔆 and today was time to pick up on the long hard inspiration tour de forever on litterpicking and change of culture.

At least ten volunteers supported the effort today, myself included.

Lærke, Camilla and her daughter were here again 🥰 Helle and her husband Alexandr debuted after considering to join several times and a man, his two daughters under 10 years old and their grandma, I suppose, helped a bit as well 🚮

Those were the ones I met today, but there are always more since I always leave all the gear with a note of just borrow it and return it on a specific end of event.

There is a heavy pressure on the park at summer time and a vibrant athmosphere with loads of joyfull moments with friends and family, but also loads of litter dropped in the bushes.

We cleared some small bushy areas and still relieved Fælledparken of 83 kg of trash❗️

offered coffee and ice cream for the volunteers 🙏😊

Every last Sunday in the month at 10AM to 1PM, I will be doing the cleanups in Fælledparken.

Hope all of you feel richer on life since my last post 😘

In the last two photos, you see the home pitch of the football club in the background. They are neighbours to Fælledparken, and I have high hopes on FCK to support our cleanups by once in a while handing out free tickets for matches for the volunteers to come and visit the home athmosphere at Denmarks most succesfull football team 🦁

On the stadium it says: Vi er København - We are Copenhagen". I hope it goes outside the stadium as well 😉

     

Today was my monthly cleanup in Fælledparken, always the last Sunday of the month from 10AM to 1PM.

It was a great 🌞 day in an area often highly polluted with trash. I was here three weeks ago and removed 1️⃣0️⃣2️⃣ kg of trash.

Today Torben, his son William, Solveig and maybe a handfull more were helping out, and we succeeded in removing 4️⃣7️⃣,2️⃣ kg of trash the exact same place❗️

I am slowly making deals with local businesses to cooperate by showing some appreciation to the efforts of the volunteers and so far a supermarket Tjæpt on Blegdamsvej sponsors big recycled sacks for the events and offers a cup of coffee or a slush ice for the volunteers after the cleanup and has offered an icecream for the kids.

In July I will visit Japan and South Korea, holidaying with my family for a month. I plan to drop by a cleanup in Tokyo arranged by and a cleanup on Jeju Island arranged by if possible 🙏🌏

When I am back I will put some energy in trying to engage the local community businesses. To begin with I will try to make deals with the local cultural event providers in hope to see them acknowledging the volunteers by offering tickets to see the local football club , dress reherarsels for theater performances at and , tickets for museums and other cultural events. I hope they will support the great efforts of the volunteers 🙏

Going on summer holiday! Take care everyone for our 🌎 and yourselves!

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Quite a lot of early birds joined the cleanup in Fælledparken this morning at 🕗-🕙AM.

Between 15-20 people joined, and most of all small citizens younger than 8 years old along with their parents, but also the lovely and always helpful retired lady: Grete and Solveig, a very active and super user of the park.

I am high on helpfull people and lovely kids being overly thrilled by the fascinating snapper/grabber🧑‍🦯

The really great part is that I can see a group of dedicated local trash heroes in the making and it just makes me really happy not feeling utterly alone on this serious matter 🙏😁

Together we did well by removing 1️⃣0️⃣2️⃣,8️⃣ kg trash from Sansehaven and the nearby surroundings❗️

Next cleanup in Fælledparken will be June 22 at 10AM to 1PM, meeting at Tårnlegepladsen 🤗

Happy Trashing out there 🚮

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Lots of life, laughter, play, activity, coziness and happy people, but also an explosion of trash and not least the bicycle thieves are super active. Especially the area in the bushes between Riget and Fælledparken.

A total of 9️⃣5️⃣,7️⃣ kg of trash collected, and a large part of it was bicycle fenders and bicycle baskets from stolen bicycles that have been peeled and presumably sold.

Three stolen bicycles had not yet been peeled, one of which was simply stolen again from the collected trash while I was out collecting more 🚮

I only collected trash from the bushes between the Tårnlegepladsen/scooter track and then almost up to the end of the road between Riget and Fælledparken, so there is still quite a bit of trash on that small stretch.

I hope to see more volunteers come to lend a hand for just half an hour or a full hour in the near future because it is obvious that the amount of trash we produce, there is no municipal cleaning service that can keep up with keeping it down even moderately without any of us citizens who produce the trash helping 🙏

Unfortunately, I couldn't take a picture at the end where more bicycle baskets, bicycle screens and 3-4 more bags were added to the pile, but my phone went black and that is why I today, six days later are making a little late update on the cleanup.

The next cleanup are tomorrow on June 8th at 8-10 am (usually 10-1 pm, but this day is an exception) at Sansehaven in Fælledparken❗️

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The weekly cleanup at Fælledparken ended in a very rainy day and a little too thirsty phone that needed a day off for drying.

Now it is back on track and I can tell you a couple of guys didn't get scared off by the weather and supported the cleanup by a total of 2️⃣7️⃣,2️⃣ kg of trash removed from the park near The French Playground as it is called 👏

It is a tough period. Very few supporting the cleanups and terrible support for my crowdfunding campaign for my 2 in 1 running vest and trashbag for plogging, but a huge respond from people promising all kinds of success with the campaign if I just let them, 15-20 mails daily.

No feedback, no sharing, no almost nothing... So, I am a little demotivated and disappointed and a little less active in here, wondering if it is all just a sharing of likes, but nobody actually reads anything, and then it is ofcourse me and my poor skills in making it interesting enough 🤷‍♂️

I just wished people would look through my crowdfunding campaign found in bio and give a usefull feedback 🙏

Well, I will be back one way or another, with or without social media 💚

A little group of a mum and her 3 or 4 year old daughter and a dad and two of his sons younger than 10 years old and I were the team cleaning up in Fælledparken.

We did a fine job removing 6️⃣4️⃣,6️⃣ kg of trash in three hours time 🎉

Torben and his sons has become more or less regulars, which is just perfect and Roos expected to turn up again.

People like them, not just dropping by for once. They are extremely valuable for the motivation in the cause and for the future of our planet - Thank you guys 🙏

Eventyrkiosken offered ice cream for the kids after their great effort just to show some support for the cause 👏

MiljøPunkt Østerbro delivered the grabbers 👏 that we have made an agreement about that I keep at my place and then citizens and companies, can just call me if they want to borrow them for a cleanup event.

Already made two deals with companies cleaning up with in between 12 to 30 colleagues.

Next Sunday at 10AM to 1PM the battle in Fælledparken continues 💯

🔥 COUNTDOWN TO MAY 1 🔥

Tomorrow I will launch a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign on The Giraffe, a 2-in-1 running vest and trashbag for plogging or simply running 🚀

👉 Check my pre-launch page. It will turn into the actual campaign when it officially launches May 1:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/plogandplay/the-giraffe

I need a powerful start on my campaign although the campaign will be 42 days long, but most succesful campaigns have strong starts.

🎈 Remember, if the campaign will not meet my goal, any donations and orders will never be withdrawn from your account.

💯 That is how these campaigns work. It is all or nothing on Kickstarter.

⬇ You can support by ordering a great product or backing a great idea by ⬇

1️⃣ Donations from €1 to €80.000, goal of the campaign 😅
2️⃣ Ordering The Giraffe
3️⃣ Ordering the running vest ONLY
4️⃣ Ordering packages of 3-50 pieces of The Giraffe with discounts

🙏 Follow my campaign on Plog and Play Instagram or Facebook AND like and share 🙏

All I want from you is to consider whether you think this is a great idea or product. If you do, then please donate or place an order AND like and share. If not, then just let it pass.

To prevent overconsumption we need to drag any purchase through the filter of "do I need it or does it bring anything good"❓

I believe this product can be part of a change of culture towards a more sustainable living, but we do not have to agree. The last thing I want to do is to produce a product that ends up on a landfill.

The market is crazy at the moment and recently the prize per unit of my product was increased by 50% and the minimum of quantity was doubled, but the quality is good and I am born optimistic.

Support my campaign and let us see how far we can get⁉️

Coming soon: The Giraffe 2 in 1 running vest and reusable trashbag combining running and picking up litter (plogging)

In May and June, I will be intensively involved in the fight against trash in Copenhagen, focused on postcode 2100 where I am from.

I wish to increase awareness of our overconsumption of plastic and to work for a cultural change, where we Copenhageners begin to take responsibility for the trash in our streets, which we are all complicit in, since it is we who feed the plastic industry by continuing to buy single-use plastic, choosing food that is unnecessarily packaged in plastic, etc.

Today, together with 7 other volunteers, I cleaned the area around Soppesøen and Skaterbanen with a total of 8️⃣6️⃣.8️⃣ kg of collected trash. We cleaned the area marked with a thin blue line in one of the attached pictures.

As you see I have arranged six cleanups so far in 2025 in this park with a total of 3️⃣2️⃣4️⃣,9️⃣ kg trash removed❗

The effort is in collaboration with MiljøPunkt Østerbro, which supplies equipment for the cleanups.
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🔜 COMING UP⬇

May 1: Launch of Crowdfunding campaign for The Giraffe - a 2 in 1 running vest and trashbag 🚀:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/plogandplay/the-giraffe

May 1: N´borhood Trash 9AM to 3PM at Tåsinge Plads, cleaning up an entire neighborhood (link):

https://fb.me/e/4BTda6YE6

May 4: Cleanup Fælledparken 10AM to 1PM at continueing cleaning up the backyard of many Copenhageners:

https://fb.me/e/4LeUBo8jJ

🙏 Check out my Kickstarter Crowdfunding PRE-launch page to get a sneak peak on the campaign before it officially launches May 1 🙏

Check out link 👉 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/plogandplay/the-giraffe

⬇ When there, make sure to push ⬇

✔ NOTIFY ME ON LAUNCH

If you wonder how I ended up plogging, you have got the short story on page 2 and 3❗



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