Every Wednesday evening, a group of runners in Shanghai get together and have their 5-to-8-kilometer run in the city. This is not an ordinary (普通的) run. The runners take rubbish bags with them and pick up rubbish when they run.
"Make running more than just running," Kate Sogor, one of the runners, says. She wears a blue T-shirt with "WE RUN FOR RUBBISH" on the back. Besides (除……以外) the weekly runs, the group also has family runs once a month. Children and even pets can take part in the activity.
Sogor says there are more than 200 rubbish runners from all walks of life in the city, such as office workers, yoga teachers and restaurant owners. Over 90 percent of the group members are Chinese. The oldest are in their 40s, and the youngest is just 5.
"I feel great to make the Earth cleaner," says an 8-year-old boy. He joined the group last month with his parents.
Rubbish Running came to Shanghai in 2018. There are groups in 16 cities like Shanghai, Beijing, Chongqing, Changchun and Wuhan. More than 9,300 runners run and make the cities clean.
