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NEW DELHI: Cleanup your backyard and let people know about it through Google!

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and internet search giant Google have joined hands to launch a "Think globally act locally" campaign wherein people across the planet cleaning up their area will share the result with millions of people on the internet.
   
During the International Cleanup weekend on October 13-14, jointly launched by the UNEP and Google, community groups and individuals on every continent will be heading out in small groups with friends and family to clean up their local parks, beaches, streets and neighbourhood.
   
Under this initiative, their activities and results will make history by being posted as photos and videos on Google map, giving a global platform to local initiative, Achim Steiner, Under Secretary General and UNEP's executive director said in a statement here.
   
"The idea is to match the power of local community action with the power of the world wide web. This should make a formidable partnership, uniting and empowering groups from Bangalore to Bermuda and Berlin to Beijing in common cause," he added.
   
The partnership with one of the largest search engines would help make the world become more "clean" and "green," Ashbindu Singh, regional coordinator of UNEP for North America, said here.

The volunteers across the world have already started posting their "cleanup areas" on the Website's map.

Last year, Google Earth featured "UNEP: Atlas of our changing environment", offering satellite images of 100 environmental hotspots from around the world and showing the dangers looming over them.