Do you often run outdoors to keep healthy? Have you ever thought about how running helps to clean up the earth? Sometimes a creative mind can bring us a win-win(双赢) situation.
Plogging began in Sweden(瑞典). The name "plogging" comes from two words -the Swedish(瑞典的) word "plocka", which means "to pick up", and the word "jogging", which means "to run slowly". A Swedish man called Erik started the movement.
He saw rubbish here and there when riding to work each day. He became worried about the dirty environment and decided not to go to work by bike any more.
Then he began to run to work and pick up the rubbish. ①To his joy, more and more people followed him and soon the new way to exercise became popular.
Many people choose plogging instead of just jogging because they think plogging is a good way to help clean up the earth. Sometimes rubbish is difficult to collect because it may scatter(散落) all around. But if the runners pick up the rubbish on the way, it is quite different. After all, many hands make light work.
Another reason is that plogging burns more calories(卡路里). According to a research, plogging for 10 minutes burns 48 calories, while usual jogging for 10 minutes burns about 39 calories.
Everyone on the earth should play a part in cleaning it up!②是我们一起采取行动的时候了。So ready? Let's plog tomorrow!
