Start at front of the veggie restaurant " Badaboom" in Nice, a group of riders of a new kind has made an appointment: their discipline is not jogging but "plogging" . With small strides, the participants spot the rubbish left on the sidewalks Nice: bottles, papers, plastic ... nothing escapes their radar. The plogging is to enjoy his jogging to pick up trash and rubbish encountered on the course. The term plogging comes from the contraction of the word jogging and the verb plocka upp (pick up in Swedish). A simple concept born of an observation: too much waste in the streets and parks, the urgency to act to make everyday life more enjoyable in every way.Equipped with a generally flashy sports outfit and trash bags, the ploggers leave no paper or wrapping behind them: in addition to running, they drop, jump, walk, make detours to pick up everything that hangs. The equivalent of a fractionated training and a muscular reinforcement with the environmental and playful action in addition. Devilishly effective, the plogging is even the subject of sports clubs in Stockholm.Often in gang, the ploggers attract the attention: jumping and running in groups with their big bags, picking up the detritus in the urban space, they make their action visible and comprehensible. "At first we are a little hesitant, a little embarrassed but the important thing is to overcome this feeling and it works" , according to a plogger interviewed by the Swiss TV RTS.There are countless publications on the social networks of ploggers posing with their garbage bags filled or garbage picked up. The goal is to collect the maximum amount of waste in a minimum of time, the sporting and ecological performance is also an engine for these responsible sportsmen.In 2016, in France, the RunEco Team movement was already running to collect and post a photo of the waste collected. For the past year, the RunEco Team mobile app has counted not only the kilometres travelled but also the amount of litter collected. An initiative supported from its inception by the creator of Facebook himself, Mark Zuckerberg, and present in over a hundred countries. Source : https://nice.maville.com/