‘Plogging’ The New Eco-Friendly Fitness Craze

‘Plogging’
The New Eco-Friendly Fitness Craze

Plogging
• Running is good for your health. Picking up
litter is good for the planet’s health. Why not
combine the two?
• Plogging is a combination of jogging with
picking up litter (Swedish: plocka upp).

Plogging
• It started as an organised activity in Sweden
around 2016 and spread to other countries in
2018, following increased concern about
plastic pollution.
• As a workout, it provides variation in body
movements by adding bending, squatting and
stretching to the main action of running.

Plogging
• Plogging essentially combines jogging with
picking up trash, while turning it all into a
social event.
• The phenomenon was born in Sweden in 2016,
when groups started to form around the
activity.
• The word plogging fuses ’plocka’ and
’jogga’, meaning ’picking (up)’ and
’jogging’ in Swedish.

Word plogging fuses ’plocka’ and ’jogga’, meaning
’picking (up)’ and ’jogging’ in Swedish

Plogging: The Environmentally Friendly Way
to Exercise
• Plogging is the new fitness fad you need to
know.
• A combination of “plucking” and “jogging,” this
multitasking activity combines burning calories
with keeping your environment trash-free.

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• The brainchild of environmentalist,
• Erik Ahlström, plogging encourages you to
do more with your workout. Late last month,
Plogga hosted the first-ever plogging event in
Denver.

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• As plogging makes its way around the globe,
runners are turning their jogs into plogs.
• All you have to do is hold onto a small bag
(and maybe a pair of gloves), and you’re ready
to torch calories and tidy up the planet.
• Many ploggers have been surprised to see
just how much trash is on the ground in
parks and along running trails.

Plogging: The Environmentally Friendly
Way to Exercise

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• Founded by Erik Ahlström, the Stockholm-based
group Plogga aims to activate the city’s runners as a
force for good.
• Ploggers run while wearing gloves—all the better for
handling garbage—and carry large trash bags, then stop
to pick up any litter they see along their route.
• Once the bag is full, it’s deposited in an appropriate
receptacle, which cuts down on the amount of litter
that makes its way to the ocean, tainting wildlife
habitats and human drinking- water sources

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• Plogging’s agreeable agenda has spread
beyond Scandinavia, thanks to a string of
short write-ups on the activity in various
publications.
• Paris, an informal group has sprung up, aptly
named Plogging France.
• And in Edinburgh, Scotland, a pub-based
running group has in recent weeks taken to
picking up litter during their outings.

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• The organizer of these runs, Anna
Christopherson—a native of Sweden and
owner of a group of Swedish bars and
restaurants in the United Kingdom—said she
believes “all of us should make an effort to
keep our surroundings clean,” and that
running and trash cleanup have “always
been a thing in Sweden,” just not necessarily
joined together.

Anna Christopherson—a native of Sweden and
owner of a group of Swedish bars

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• That’s the idea behind “plogging,” a new
environmentally conscious fitness trend
where people pick up rubbish while on a
run.

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• According to The Washington Post, this
exercise-meets-eco-friendly activity started in
Sweden and has since spread—primarily via
social media—throughout Europe and into the
U.S., Mexico, and beyond.
• On Instagram alone, there are now more
than 10,000 posts tagged #plogging, which is
a combination of “jogging” and “plocka
upp” (Swedish for “pick up”).

Plogging: The Environmentally Friendly
Way to Exercise
• Laura Lindberg, a Hoboken, New Jersey, resident
who first learned of plogging in February, tells
“The next day I took gloves and a bag and
started picking up garbage along the way. I
found it to be really satisfying instead of just
passing by litter and silently cursing the
individual who put it there.”
• Lindberg, 36, plogs solo four to five times a week
and also plalks (walks and picks up trash—a more
accessible cousin of plogging) almost daily

Plogging brings awareness to just how much
litter lines our streets, parks, and trails
• From water bottles and liquor bottles to dental
flossers, diapers, and cotton swabs, “there’s no
shortage of garbage every single day,” says
Lindberg, who typically wears gardening
gloves when she plogs, and draws the line at
cigarette butts and “anything that looks like
it.” She stashes trash in plastic bags that she
discards at the end of her routes, or drops
individual pieces in city bins along the way.

Plogging brings awareness to just how much litter
lines our streets, parks, and trails

• Manchester, New Hampshire-based Abby
Drake, who plogs multiple times a week, tells.
Drake, a self-described eco-conscious consumer,
has been plogging for two months after she saw a
Facebook video on the trend and realized: “This
is something I could actively do to help.” Like
Lindberg, she chronicles her plogging hauls via
Instagram.
• “Almost every 30 feet I found a Budweiser can,”
she says. “It was like an Easter egg hunt.”

As for the rules of plogging?
Throw away (or recycle, as appropriate) the trash
you collect.
• How often you plog, how much trash you gather
each time, what types of trash you collect, and how
you transport said trash is really up to you.
• “There’s no wrong way to do it,” says Lindberg. “It
doesn’t matter how much or how little you pick up—
it’s an empowering way to engage with your
community.”
• Drake, for example, tries to pick up every single piece
of trash that she sees—even tiny shreds of plastic. “No
piece of trash is too small,” she says. “They all make a
difference in the health of our planet.”

As for the rules of plogging?
Throw away (or recycle, as appropriate) the trash
you collect.

As it turns out, plogging comes with
some great health benefits
• According to data from the fitness app
Lifesum, one hour of plogging burns 288
calories on average compared to 235 calories
on average for plain old jogging, with the
added benefit that participants are
simultaneously cleaning up their local
communities.
• According to a fitness app, plogging is a more
effective form of exercise than jogging.

As it turns out, plogging comes with
some great health benefits

Instagrams from ploggers across the world that
might just motivate you to give it a go yourself
• Environmentalist runners the world over are taking
note, as Instagram posts tagged with #plogging pour
in from far-flung locales like Thailand, Australia, and
New Jersey.
• That’s the beauty of the plog—all it takes is you, a
bag, some gloves, and a desire to clean the world
up just a little.

Instagrams from ploggers across the
world

Plogging
• Wonderfully simplistic, plogging has the power
to enact real, positive change.
• our current wasteful trajectory, some speculate
that there will be more plastic than fish in the
oceans by 2050.
• This is due largely to the estimate that as much as
80 percent of all plastic in the sea originates from
land-based sources.
• With millions of runners crisscrossing the
globe every day, particularly in cities, maybe
they can help stem that tide.

Plogging
• And if the altruistic angle isn’t enough to
make you consider grabbing a trash bag
before your next run, remember:
• Beach season’s coming up! Just think about
the core work you’ll sneak in, bending down
again and again to snag those stray bits of
rubbish.

Beach season’s coming up!
Go Ploggers !

References
• Plogging
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plogging
• Plogging', a Swedish eco-friendly fitness trend is catching on across the
globe
https://nordic.businessinsider.com/plogging-a-swedish-eco-friendly-fitness-
trend-is-catching-on-across-the-globe--/
• ‘Plogging,’The New Eco-Friendly Fitness Craze
https://www.self.com/story/what-is-plogging-eco-friendly-fitness-running-
craze
• Plogging: Germans take to the new eco-friendly fitness craze
http://www.dw.com/en/plogging-germans-take-to-the-new-eco-friendly-
fitness-craze/a-44203123

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