A Facebookvideo, which shows the phenomenon of ”ploggning” (in English plogging) has received over 21 million views.
It is a kind of exercise where practitioners jogs or runs while picking up garbage lying on the ground. In the video it is described as a simple and fun form of exercise: ”all you need is a skräppåse and your favoritlöparskor”.
Since February of 2017 has over 1,000 posts published on Facebook where Sweden and plogging mentioned. Muay thai describe as a great american movement.
” That is true actually is not. We may have set up about 200 events in total, ” says Erik Ahlström who is an enthusiast and the initiator of the movement.
Rickard Aspegren and Sophia Melander are two of the swedes exercising the ploggning. Photo: Fredrik Sandberg/TT
about two years ago, Erik Ahlström had lived in Åre during a longer period of time and moved back to Stockholm.
” Then I saw how hard it had become in the city, it made me sad. I wondered how I would be able to make a difference. Then I work with the running and we were a few friends that were out there and ran. When we saw trash we picked it up, ” he says.
He feel sorry, almost addictive. He describes how after a while ”skräpplockarögon” in much the same way people can have ”kantarellögon”.
– the Name is very fun and it is easy to remember. It looks funny when we do it, and it makes good on the film, says Ahlström, who is well aware that ploggandet received a lot of attention abroad.
heard, journalists from a German channel with Erik Ahlström. They wanted to do a feature on something ”typically Swedish”.
” So they came here a completely tv-team and ”ploggade” with us. Then sent it where the element in the German tv. And after it was translated element to the Italian, Spanish and French. It was then that it took off for real. The element went in all sorts of different forums and different tv-companies contacted me and wanted to interview us. Now the last time I saw any element from Japan, ” says Ahlström.
Erik Ahlström did ploggning known. ”It looks funny when we do it, and it makes good on film,” he says. Photo: Dennis Ylikangas
They came here a completely tv-team and ”ploggade” with us. Then sent it where the element in the German tv
He says that he barely has time to respond to all interview requests from foreign journalists, but tend to sometimes be content to send away a form with the ”questions and answers”.
– We’ve got ourselves blown to life in the fireplace, but this development has been enormous. For actually it is only I who work with this. I run on plogging in Stockholm and in the whole world you can say, ” says Erik Ahlström and laughs a little.
” no, No, I never hear of me, it is the journalists who contact us.
Erik Ahlström think there are many reasons to plogga.
– We get both children and adults start to move. There is just so much junk, it harms nature and animals. It’s actually quite sick that the people who are working to pick up others ‘ rubbish, it is a sign of a dysfunctional society, like Erik Ahlström.
Video if ploggande swedes who been seen 21 million times the Link to the Facebook content
￭ It is said in the movie: ”A new idrottstrend from Sweden gives your workout an eco-friendly twist. It is called plogging and is half jogging and half skräpplockning. All you need is a bag for the garbage and your running shoes. Grupploggning has been great and people are cleaning up on the streets along with friends, family and even pets.”
■ do you not See the post above? Then you can see the film on Facebook here .
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