Moldovans on September 15 came together to clean up public areas as part of World Cleanup Day. The event was to start at 10am, but almost 50 inhabitants of Chișinău at 9am were already working hard in the Park “Valea Morilor”, responding thus to the call made by the civic movement “Hai, Moldova!”, IPN reports.

Coordinator of the cleanup effort in the Park “Valea Morilor” Veaceslav Crețu said the participants were mainly people living in the area. The waste gathered in sacks is taken to the peripheries of the park from where it will be taken to the landfill.

By 10am, the people gathered ten sacks of waste already. “It is litter everywhere. Cleanup activities should be carried out daily during two-three years for at least Chișinău to be clean. It is disastrous. We are students from a number of dorms and we decided to come together to clean up,” said participant Tudor Buhnaci.

“We mobilized today for a volunteering activity and a good deed. By such cleanup events, we can deliver a message so that the other people also realize that is not so hard to be responsible and not to litter. We must protect nature,” stated Ana-Maria Pârlog.

“Hai, Moldova!”, together with other movements, public associations and nongovernmental organizations, forms part of the team “Lets Do It World”, which is a cleanup campaign carried out simultaneously in over 150 countries, including Moldova. World Cleanup Day started today in New Zealand. The worldwide wave of cleanup follows the Sun through 24 time zones and ends 36 hours later in Hawaii