It's 6:15 am on a school day, and Jocelyn Murzycki has two kids and she needs to get out the door in an hour. As the sky begins to1, Murzycki doesn't manage a few more minutes of sleep.2, she's heading out in the freezing cold on her daily plog—a run to3litter.
First, the4are:a litter grabber and a reusable shopping bag, one side for landfill and the other for5. Covering herself up, Murzycki jogs6down Main Street, stopping briefly to pick up a plastic cup. She usually needs to stop halfway through her 20-minute run to7her bag. Within a few hours the street will look littered again. But she isn't8—it just adds fuel to her plogging fire.
The word "plogging" comes from plogga, a9of two Swedish words that mean to pick up and to jog. The activity was10by Erik Ahlstrom. When he moved to Stockholm, he felt11at the amount of litter in the streets and began gathering friends to clean up the neighborhood while out for runs. Now Mr. Ahlstrom is traveling the world, publicizing the12of plogging. In the U. S. , social media and running groups are13people to get out and plog:the "plogging" tag (标签) alone has more than 40, 000 posts.
Murzycki has been doing this for a few years even before the trend hit the U. S. "It is really super14if you go out every single day and just pick up litter, " she says. But she has figured out how to make it fun by jogging with friends and adding the15in which finding a tiny glass bottle adds one push-up (俯卧撑).
