Belgrade (dpa) – More than 200,000 people in Slovenia were expected to take part in a big nationwide cleanup on Saturday and remove tens of thousands of tons of garbage, national television said. The action “Let's clean Slovenia up in a day” was organized by Ecologists Without Borders with the aim of clearing some 7,000 illegal dumps and remove some 10,000 tons of garbage. The daily Delo said in its online edition that a total of 250,000 people, or 12 per cent of the former Yugoslav republic's population, was expected to take part in one form or other. In a similar initiative a year ago, 270,000 Slovenian volunteers removed 15,000 tons of garbage from the environment. On both occasions the aim was to clean sites that were not designated as dumps. Slovenia is a small republic, half the size of the Netherlands, but with a diverse geography, stretching from the Alps to the Adriatic coast. It broke off from former Yugoslavia in 1991 and joined the European Union in 2004. BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/uZV3A Tags: Cleanup, Effort, Environment, Slovenia Section: Central Europe, Environment, Going Green, Latest News
