World Clean Up day it is where throughout The Netherlands, many volunteers went on the streets and canals to pick up litter, helping to make the earth a little cleaner together.
The Amsterdam canals are part of The Netherlands cultural heritage. Every year, 42,000 kg of plastic is fished out of the canals in Amsterdam. An unprecedentedly large number that is only a fraction of the total plastic that ends up in the canals each year, according to Waternet (Water company for Amsterdam).
The waste that is not removed from the water flows via the IJ into the North Sea. Keeping the canals clean is hardly possible at the moment, which is why we they took their responsibility.
