Comments on: Google's International Cleanup Weekend puts maps to good use

The Google Earth team wants you to do your part cleaning up the globe with a global cleanup weekend documented on Google Maps.

[Jasraj Sandhu]

Wrong Timing

Unfortunately the International Cleanup Weekend falls squarely on the Muslim End of Ramadan celebrations. So for countries like Malaysia this is a huge celebration and will make organizing the Cleanup Weekend a difficult thing to pull off.

Otherwise I think it's great idea that Google is conducting the event and utilizing gmaps for organizing it.

[drwho]

Timing is everything...

....and there is no way to make it the "perfect weekend" date for something like this.

Out here on the LEFT COAST (of the USA), we recently had the annual cleanup day sponsored by HEAL THE BAY in which people along the entire coast from Washington State to the Mexican Border cleaned up beaches & public parks, ETC to the tune of several tons of refuse & recyclables!!

[Henri372]

Take a look at the Estonian cleanup action with 50000 volunteers and 10 000 tons of trash collected all over the country. It was called the "Let's Do It" project. The site is http://www.teeme2008.ee

The video of their action is up at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5GryIDl0qY