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Activists do Dirty Work of Clearing Trash on World Cleanup Day

Agence France-Presse

   SYDNEY - Thousands of activists fanned out across beaches and rivers
   throughout Asia Saturday, picking up rubbish and drawing attention to
   the amount of trash that is dumped worldwide, a day after millions
   marched to urge world leaders to act on climate change.

   The volunteers turned out for World Cleanup Day, an initiative that has
   sent millions into the streets and cleaning up litter across the globe
   since it began just over a decade ago.

   The Pacific island nation of Fiji swung into action early, with people
   scouring palm-fringed beaches for rubbish, heaving discarded car tires
   and engine parts from the coast just west of the capital Suva.

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