On Saturday the 19th of last month, a couple of dozen people went for a walk, picking up litter as they went – they were out Plogging!

Now, unless you’re Swedish you’ll have little idea what plogging is – I thought it had something to do with using a sink plunger, so I looked it up and quote wikipedia:

“Plogging is a combination of jogging with picking up litter (merging the Swedish verbs plocka upp (pick up) and jogga (jog) gives the new Swedish verb plogga, from which the word plogging derives).

It started as an organized activity in Sweden around 2016 and spread to other countries in 2018, following increased concern about plastic pollution. An estimated 2,000,000 people plog daily in 100 countries and some plogging events have attracted over 3,000,000

As a workout, it provides variation in body movements by adding bending, squatting and stretching to the main action of running, hiking, or walking.”.

OK, so that’s what the Salobreña’s, civic-minded enthusiasts were up to as part of the II Edición del Circuito de Plogging Fundación Miguel García Sánchez. Starting off in La Caleta, they worked their way along the shoreline under the cliffs before emerging at the entrance to Costa Aquilera Baja on the N-340. Enhorabuena, majos!

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