Japan holds first world championship of aggressive garbage assortment

Japan on Wednesday held the primary world championship of a novel sport of garbage assortment.

As many as 21 nations participated within the competitors that concerned scouting for empty cans, bits of plastic, and cigarettes on the streets of Tokyo, with Britain lifting the primary Spogomi World Cup.

Launched in 2008, it takes its title from the phrases “sport” and “gomi” – Japanese for garbage. Its inventor, Kenichi Mamitsuka, used to choose up litter on his morning runs and realised that setting targets may flip it right into a enjoyable exercise, reported AFP.

“For those who kind nationwide spogomi associations, my ambition is that it may change into an Olympic demonstration occasion,” he advised the wire company.

The opponents, together with groups from the US, Australia, and France, collected a complete of 548kg of litter, based on organisers.

Armed with gloves, steel tongs and garbage baggage, every staff was made up of three gamers who have been awarded factors based mostly on the quantity and varieties of litter they picked up.

Gathering garbage from personal properties was not allowed, and the gamers got 20 minutes after every session to type litter into completely different classes together with burnable waste, recyclable plastic bottles, steel cans, cigarette butts and others.

“It’s irritating as a result of we wished to win this occasion,” Tomoe Takahashi, a member of the Japanese staff from Niigata Prefecture, was quoted as saying by The Mainichi. “However I hope extra individuals world wide will likely be eager about environmental points.”

The UK earned the highest spot with 9,046.1 factors for accumulating a complete of 57.27kg of garbage.

The second World Cup is scheduled to be held in Tokyo in 2025.