Region:
Central, East & West Europe
Name of the country team:
Mes Darom
Website:
http://www.mesdarom.lt
Contact e-mail:
lithuania [at] letsdoitworld [dot] org
Karolis Sargūnas
Project manager
e-mail: karolis [at] mesdarom [dot] lt
+370 648 74045
Danielius Stasiulis
Chairman of the Board
Danielius [at] mesdarom [dot] lt
+370 678 15356
All cleanups
Time |
Cleanup project name | Region within the country | Actual number of volunteers | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11.05.2013 (All day) | Mes Darom | 150000 | ||
| 21.04.2012 (All day) | Mes Darom | 210000 | ||
| 16.04.2011 (All day) | Darom 2011 | 120000 | ||
| 17.04.2010 (All day) | Darom 2010 | 200000 | ||
| 18.04.2009 (All day) | Darom 2009 | 70000 | ||
| 03.05.2008 (All day) | Darom 2008 | 3000 |
Media coverage in other channels
The Daily Edge
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Fri, 20/04/2012
APRIL IS HERE so that must mean spring cleaning time. So what’s on the list? Oh, just the whole world… Read more »
ERR News
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Fri, 20/04/2012
Massive civic cleanup actions are set to take place in Albania, Austria, Croatia, the US, Latvia, Lithuania and Egypt this weekend under the framework of the Let's Do It campaign, a grassroots initiative that originated in Estonia. Read more »
World Cleanup 2012
Cleanup project: Mes Darom – 21.04.2012 (All day)
Actual number of volunteers: 210000
Amount of waste collected: 1500 tons
Short overview
The cleanup was organized already for the fifth year.
The cleanup was organized already for the fifth year.
Organizing
Structure. Our organization is called „Mes Darom“. We are working on a voluntary bases since 2008 when the first cleanup action was launched. There are about 200 team members in the organization.Partners. We had three types of partners:
1. Public institutions like municipalities, forest enterprises etc were responsible for the local arrangements;
2. Non-governmental organizations –members of these organizations became coordinators during the cleanup;
3. Private companies - contributed financially (e.g. instruments), workers became coordinators during the cleanup.
Volunteers. Around 210 000 people and 200 organizations participated in the cleanup. There were 60 non-governmental organizations registered.
Logistics. Supported by municipalities and other local institutions
Waste
Short overview of mapping. We had two-step mapping: 1. Cleanup points were suggested by local municipalities. They had the best knowledge about their polluted places. 2. Participants were able to suggest cleanup points too. The polluted places were identified and marked by smartphones. Finally the list of cleanups was placed on our website - http://www.mesdarom.lt/vilnius.html
Estimated amount of garbage: This year we did not account the area of waste, We picked up 1500 tones of waste. Next year we are planning to measure the cleaned territory.
Waste types. Different Lithuanian regions had different opportunities for collecting the waste separately. The biggest cities used bags of different colors e.g. green color garbage bags were filled with electronic devices while red bags were used for municipal waste.
At first we had an idea to separate all kind of waste in different colored bags. Unfortunately it was not done because we did not receive as many bags as necessary.
Statistics
