The winner of the

the winner of the “Clean games” and the holder of the environmental title of “Hero of labor” Vitaly Barsky told the readers of “Rosbalt”, how was the prize of the fighters with the debris and why it matters.

St. Petersburg joined the action almost at the beginning, on June 6, when a mass event is prohibited and team competitions are possible.

“it became individual plan of participation, where everyone picked up litter, uploaded with the hashtag or posts in Instagram, or “Vkontakte”, and it tracked the rating,” said Barsky.

According to him, of purpose to win, he did not pursue, and just wanted to do a good deed.

“Every day I pass, I see this garbage, not very nice. The road seems all green, bushes, trees, but there is a candy wrapper lying there a pack of lies… Perfectionism still gnaws inside, and I want it to go well. Probably plays a role, and everyone knows the broken Windows theory, when one threw the candy wrapper, then the second, third, someone bag a planted and eventually grows a mountain, there is illegal dumping. A noble cause, in isolation, and the impetus to do something worthwhile and to spend time,” said St. Petersburg.

I Wrestled with the garbage he’s in Kolpino, Moscow area, on the beach in Holguin and other places. In the end, Barsky managed to collect 16 thousand to 920 liters of waste, which made him the winner in the nomination “Hero of labor”. He added that a good example is contagious and many of his friends were connected to environmental activism.

All the statements of Vitaly Barsky read soon in the “Rosbalt”. The reporter also talked to the head of the project Dmitry Ioffe about the idea, the results of the event and its prospects.

Ecological project “Clean games” traditionally holds team competitions, to combat waste on the Oprahdivided by territories. The pandemic has changed the plans of the organizers, and in June they are the founders of the prize fighters with debris, which individually took part the Russians from 58 regions. The results were following in the online format.

“Rosbalt” presents the project “trash — be honest!”, reminding that the problem of proper disposal of waste concerns all of us, and everyone can contribute to its solution. And what kind of answers we find today will impact our quality of life tomorrow.

Stories about how you tried to get help from the Russian state in terms of coronaries and what came of it, email it to COVID-19@rosbalt.ru