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On Feb. 27, NPO Arakawa Clean Aid Forum held its annual reporting session, and I am pleased to announce that Tokyo River Friends, which is a Jambo International group, received two awards. One was for the most trash removed from the Arakawa in 2019, and the other was for the most number of clean up…
A videographer from Germany joined our last event at Yahiro. This is the video that he produced. I should have taken him on a tour of the dirty areas beforehand as much of the clip shows areas after we had cleaned, but still some great coverage of the event.
I spent this morning giving a presentation on Tokyo River Friends to IVIS…
Thirteen volunteers (7 Japanese, 2 New Zealanders, 2 Americans, 1 Malaysian, and 1 Canadian) turned out for this event and collected 52 bags of trash from the Myoden side of the river. The weather was beautiful, the tide cooperated, and it was a great day with beautiful scenery and some much needed exercise. Four people…
Arakawa River Clean Up today on the Nakagawa island next to the Tozai Line. Ten volunteers (5 Japanese, 1 Briton, 1 Scotsman, 1 Peruvian, 1 Malaysian and 1 American) collected 86 bags of trash. There was a mid-day lunch with bentos under the the C2 highway overlooking the river. The Tozai Line bridge is in…
It was a big day on the Edogawa today! Six volunteers (5 Japanese and 1 American) collected 50 bags of trash or over 8 bags per person. This was a near record with our second largest volume of trash collected to date. At roughly 15 pounds per bag (guessing), that should be over 700 pounds…
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