UNITED STAR OF EUROPE: THE NETHERLANDS / NIEDERLANDE

25.2.2023

Bob the Labradoodle loves to go for walks. All dogs do. But Bob is a special dog, he is a Plogdog. What is a Plogdog you may ask?! Plogging is running and picking up litter on your way. Humans do that. But Bob...   mehr

10.3.2023

Instagram: @maudyboogaard   mehr

12.2.2023

Somewhere in 2019 I started plogging following the National clean up day. I was provided with gloves and bags and picked up my plogstick from the city council public works. It is on borrow, to be returned when...   mehr

19.3.2023

Venlo Schoon was set up as a voluntary initiative at the end of 2019. Laurie and Suzanne had already been organizing cleanups for friends and relatives for a while. When more people wanted to join, they...   mehr

Hi, my name is Paul Waye and I am the self titled... "hardest working plogger in the world". I seem to spend all my time living up to that label. Haha.

It all started back in Sept 2011 when I made my first social media post (a tweet) about picking up trash on my run. Since then, plogging has become a major part of my life and I now pick up trash on every sporty activity I do (even marathons). I like to say that running is my passion, but plogging is my commitment.

I run nearly every day (4,000km a year) and just during my runs I pick up well over 100kg a month. Picking even a single piece of trash makes an impact, but letting people see you do it makes an even bigger one, so I use Instagram and YouTube as an opportunity to inspire. That could be by recreating a movie poster each Saturday and giving it a plogging twist (so instead of Forest Gump I remade it to Plogging Gump). Or doing something crazy like celebrating my 10th anniversary as a plogger by running 100 km and picking up trash the whole way (21 hrs, 360 kg). I don't do it so that people do the same amount as me, but in the hope that it inspires them to do a little bit.

What else is important to know? I'm an ex-Brit living in the Netherlands (I'm now officially Dutch). I'm married with two kids.. and am at the time of writing.. I'm 55years old.

My day job? As much as I would love to do this full time (do you know any billionaires who would help me? Haha), I actual have a normal job (IT business analyst).

Claim to fame? Last year I came second in the Plogging World Championships!

Instagram: @wayeoflife
YouTube: @WayeOfLife