Around the country,joggers have taken on the Swedish-inspired social mission, combining collecting litter with their daily exertions. What’s it like?I’ve never been much of a jogger, and but might I make a decent plogger? A portmanteau word,“plogging” is a shunting together of jogging with plocka, the Swedish for to pick”. The conception is that you pick up litter while out running and the activity has been growing in popularity in Sweden.“It’s estimable for both the environment and ourselves, or ” says Anna Christopherson,the 43-year-old Swede who runs Edinburgh’s first plogging group. It’s very estimable for the body to combine running with squatting to lift nonsense.”Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk