‘The sorest my legs have ever been’: hordes to descend on Hackney for litter-picking world cup - Echo Global News

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‘The sorest my legs have ever been’: hordes to descend on Hackney for litter-picking world cup

The public-spirited sport of spogomi is catching on across Britain, which boasts its world champion team

Armed with gloves, metal tongs and plastic rubbish sacks, hordes of determined litter-pickers will descend on Hackney Marshes in east London this weekend.

Spogomi, a Japanese litter-picking sport, has come to the UK. Invented in 2008, it was intended as a competition to encourage people to clean up public spaces. It is now played in schools across the country as people gamify collecting rubbish.

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