(20 Sep 2025)
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Rio de Janeiro – 20 September 2025
1. People enjoying the beach during Brazil World Cleanup Day
2. Volunteer collecting trash on the beach
3. Various of volunteers sorting trash
4. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Maria Michele da Silva, waste picker:
"I didn’t expect to find much, right? But when we stop to take a closer look, we see that the beach is really dirty. We need to work on cleaning up the environment. For us and also our children."
5. Volunteers gathering and sorting plastic waste
6. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Marcelo Calvano, leader of Instituto Limpa Brasil:
"In just a small stretch of Copacabana Beach, as you can see here, this is the amount—we really collected a lot. Honestly, I’m surprised. I didn’t expect we’d be able to remove so much waste from the beach today."
7. Various of volunteers sorting plastic waste
STORYLINE:
Volunteers took part Saturday in a collective cleanup effort at Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach as part of World Cleanup Day.
In just a few hours, organizers said they collected more than 730 kilograms (1,600 pounds) of trash from the sand.
The campaign began Tuesday and wrapped up Saturday, with Rio de Janeiro as the main stage.
The state-run energy company Petrobras and the nonprofit Instituto Limpa Brasil led the campaign.
World Cleanup Day is a United Nations-backed global event.
In Brazil, activities were held in 37 cities across the country.
Instituto Limpa said all solid waste collected will be sent to recycling cooperatives responsible for sorting and processing it.
The effort aims to support the circular economy and generate income for local communities.
Organizers noted that in the 2024 campaign, more than 600,000 volunteers were mobilized nationwide and about 1,200 tons of waste were collected.
AP Video shot by Mario Lobão
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