Millions to Clean Up Cities, Beaches in Protest

Reuters: Millions of environmental activists will be picking up trash in places from Copacabana Beach in Brazil to the banks of the Nile in Egypt this weekend in a "Clean Up the World" protest at pollution. The campaign, founded in Australia in 1993, says its members have collected 3.6 million tonnes of rubbish over the years. It reckons that would be enough to fill 5,710 Olympic-sized swimming pools with glass, plastic, metal and cigarette butts. "We will have 122 ...Link