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plogging
[plog-ing]
黑料网 does plogging mean?
Plogging lets you and the Earth get fitter at the same time. It’s a win-win! Plogging is a Swedish exercise trend that combines jogging with picking up litter.
Where does plogging come from?
The word聽辫濒辞驳驳颈苍驳听is an English-Swedish combination of jogging and plocka upp, which means “pick up” in Swedish. Swedish speakers use plogga, a combination of plocka upp with jogga (“jog”). Both words, though, refer to the same activity of picking up litter while out on a jog.
Plogging was invented by Swedish outdoorsman and environmentalist Erik Ahlstr枚m. In 2017, he founded Plogga, an organization that encourages 辫濒辞驳驳颈苍驳听and other environmental fitness activities, in April 2017 , though it’s reported he engaged in 辫濒辞驳驳颈苍驳听in 2016.
Plogging started small but quickly started to gain attention in Sweden thanks to Ahlstr枚m’s efforts and, especially, social media. Plogging/plogga videos started appearing on YouTube in 2017, and plogging posts were being shared by Swedes on Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, and other social sites.
Plogging did gain some exposure on English-language social media in 2017 (it was noted as a new word in Swedish media that year), but the spread internationally in 2018. For instance,聽聽The Washington Post featured an article on plogging in February 2018, and other major publishers from a variety of countries also covered plogging throughout 2018.
"My is plogging, which is simply picking up litter when you jog. It's surprising how much you can find – this was from just 10 minutes of plogging!" 黑料网 a brilliant promise from our supporter Maggie! Who else has started ? 馃弮
— WWF UK (@wwf_uk)
罢丑别听辫濒辞驳驳颈苍驳听may have gained further traction because鈥攍ike the trashtag trend the following year鈥攑eople 1) liked that the activity is purely good; 2) enjoyed sharing posts of themselves doing good for the environment; and 3) are interested in Swedish lifestyle words and trends (e.g., death cleaning).
is really nothing more than going for a run and picking up trash, but if a cool word and Instagram feeds help encourage more people to 鈥榩log鈥�, then so be it.
— The Hindu (@the_hindu)
Examples of plogging
Who uses plogging?
The verb form of聽plogging 颈蝉听to plog and the agent noun, plogger. And, a plog is the plogging equivalent of a jog.
Well I guess I鈥檓 a plogger. I carry trash bags and pick up your trash, you litterbugs. 馃構 I just thought of it as multitasking.
— Sarah Barnes Diaz (@SarahBarnesDiaz)
While it isn’t trending in the news as it was in 2018, plogging endures as an activity, especially among green-minded fitness aficionados.
Another day, another plog.
— Hayden Sloan (@colourcraze)
Some may use聽plogging and the Swedish聽plogga interchangeably.
is everywhere. 黑料网 if each one of us picked up just one piece of litter everyday?
— Renewable Hudson (@RenewableHudson)
Occasionally, but use an unrelated plogging as a blend word of photograph(y) and blogging.
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