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New internet challenge #trashtag inspires people to pick up trash
Finally a positive social media challenge that you can root for.
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The #trashtag challenge has receives support from a number of social media users. (Shutterstock/File)
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new challenge has become popular on social media. Dubbed the Trashtag Challenge, it encourages people to pick up litter and post it on their social media accounts while adding hashtags like #trashtag or #trashtagchallenge.
A number of people also attached before-and-after photos that have inspired other internet users to do the same while cleaning up their environment. People usually do it on the beach, parks, sidewalks or underwater. Meanwhile, several users asked whether they could take up the challenge as well.
I don't have a before-and-after picture, but here's a couple of pictures of me with my family picking up trash from the road side whenever we made a rest stop. #trashtag pic.twitter.com/TygYf2dM13
— Adhiti (@frizhbee) March 10, 2019
Another #trashtag challenge accepted! Help keep our streets clean. pic.twitter.com/0bh7oEEcTN
— TO112 (@to112life) March 10, 2019
Along the Potomac River south of Washington, DC #trashtag pic.twitter.com/n2uPL52LZG
— Robbie McNeil (@RMcNeil2105) March 10, 2019
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Apparently, #trashtag is not new as UCO, a Seattle-based outdoor equipment company, has circulated it for years. In 2015, its ambassador, Steven Reinhold, had an idea to inspire people to pick up trash and dispose it properly and it eventually launched the #TrashTag Project where they aimed to pick up 10,000 trash by October 2016, as quoted by snewsnet.com and UCO’s official Facebook page.
I like this #trashtag challenge a lot more than kids choking on cinnamon or eating TidePods.
Way to go, humanity.
— Justin Wadsworth (@readysetradio) March 10, 2019
Now that #trashtag is trending... pic.twitter.com/dYKn3VZ04d
— Only Advice Animals (@animals_advice) March 10, 2019
A number of social media users have expressed their support for the challenge, especially on Twitter, Instagram and Reddit, though other users question where the trash would be taken to.
#Trashtag is among a small number of positive challenges that can be found online. Earlier this year, the Tide Pod Challenge became popular and it required people to consume Tide laundry detergent pods, reported independent.co.uk. (wir/mut)
