Getting ready for World Clean Up Day 2023

[Felicity11]

World Clean-up Day is an annual global social event aimed at combating the global solid waste problem in our natural environment.  It was started by a group called “Let's do it” in Estonia in 2008 when 50,000 residents came together to clean up the entire country in five hours.   Since then the movement has gathered momentum and has inspired millions of people around the world to get out and clean up the environment around them. The World Clean Up Day is now one of the biggest environmental events in the world. 

This year World Clean up day falls on Saturday 16th of September. While this date does not work for everyone you may find a more suitable date for your event in the two weeks following this date. We are sharing a video of how our Host Advisory Board members are going to celebrate this day.

Taking part in World Clean up Day is a great way to get your hosting community together and make a difference to the environment around us. Many Airbnb host groups took part in the Earth Day community clean-up event in April 2023 and had a great time getting to know one another while cleaning up their local environment. If you missed out on starting a community clean-up, now is your chance to get your hosting community together and have some fun getting to know one another while you clean up. Many hosts leaders commented that they found putting together the Earth Day clean up event earlier this year very easy and the impact they had was immense. Check our guide here : How to Organize a Clean-Up Day Events. 

Sharing our Clean-Up Week Post Line up if you would like to read more : 

• Tips for Eco- Friendly Cleaning
• How we can encourage the collection of food waste in our listing 
• How Adding plants to the listings helps!
• Installing an Electric Vehicle Charger in the listing 

This post is co-authored by Host Advisory Board members Felicity from Australia and Jennifer from Canada. The article is written based on our own personal experiences and opinions as a sustainable Host. Learn more about the Host Advisory Board.

[Rachel1200]

Well I’m still on holiday in Canada and Alaska, but we’ll certainly do a local Host club clean up day when I get back to England!

I love reading about the creative clean up ideas people come up with.  Humans are so good at solutions. I just wonder about the greed so much, and the stupidity of us humans. I think about it a lot………

So much is talked about healing the harm, undoing the harm to earth, healing the hurt.

The mad part of this is that nature can heal itself , much quicker than we can realise, and all nature needs is humans to leave it alone, not “heal” it!

[Francisco-and-Yajaira-Ho0]

Our challenge in support of World Cleanup Day was to start an awareness movement among many Spanish-speaking hosts. Yesterday, dozens of hosts from Latin America joined our virtual meeting and warmly received our call with a green heart and very positive comments.

We are especially grateful for the prominent participation of  Mauricio Bernal, a committed member of the Host Advisory Board and a community leader from Cancun, Mexico, who spoke about the importance of sustainable actions in our community of hosts and the benefits this brings us, not only in terms of the community but also for the world.

We feel very honored by the presence of hosts from Colombia, Mexico, Panama, the United States, and our beautiful Dominican people. We thank everyone who supported this noble cause and urge everyone to strive for more and not stop until reaching the top.