Junk Jog, an event sponsored by Keep Albuquerque Beautiful and the city's Solid Waste Management Department that combines jogging and picking up litter, will be held Saturday, Oct. 23. But registration closes Oct. 14.
Junk job is a "plogging" event, Keep Albuquerque Beautiful told KRQE.
Plogging, or picking up litter while jogging, began several years ago as an organized activity in Sweden to combat marine litter, the station reported. For the Albuquerque event, ploggers receive a plastic garbage bag, gloves, a litter grabber and an official T-shirt.
According to the Keep Albuquerque Beautiful site, participants will jog and pick up trash along at least a one-mile loop along Bosque trails near Central and Sunset. Volunteers will exchange filled garbage bags with new, empty ones at water stops along the route, the organization said. Trash bags will be counted, and both the individual and the group that collects the most litter will receive prizes.
Participants can register here. The deadline to submit the registration form is 5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 14.
