What Is The Trashtag Challenge And How Can You Be A Part Of It?

The Trashtag Challenge has become quite popular over the past few days, if you’ve been wondering what it actually is, you’ve come to the right place.

Customarily, news stories with the words “youngster” and “trash” uncover some unsafe thing adolescents are challenging each other to do, just for perspectives on the web. But this case has been quite different than the rest.

There have been online challenges where people have been stuffing marshmallows or driving and dancing at the same time. (We see you, Kiki.)

This isn’t one of those accounts, though. The trash tag is actually quite popular and urges youngsters, especially teenagers and adolescents to do something productive.

The #trashtag challenge has a pattern which has been around for quite a while now.

An organization first used it to spread awareness and pick waste they see on a trail.

A Facebook user by the name of Byron Roman allowed the campaign to gain the much-needed attention by posting a picture of an extremely dirty place and then a picture afterward of it being cleaned up completely.

The challenge requires you to snap a picture of a territory that needs some cleaning or support at that point snap a picture after you have taken care of business, and post it with the hashtag “#trashtag”.

This quickly gained the attention of several compassionate youngsters who worked hard at cleaning spaces in their surroundings.

Byron said it was not intended to affront adolescents, yet energize them.

Teachers have been posting pictures with their students after going to nearby localities to clean their surroundings.

In fact, some pictures are so shocking that they’ve received tons of comments and millions of likes.

Unlike any other stupid social media hashtag, this one is actually for the betterment of the society.

Not only kids, but adults have been taking it seriously too, by posting pictures of cleaning their nearby parks, dirty alleys and more.

After that, the trash tag has since gotten several photos from individuals around the globe, including from instructors and guardians, sending him photographs of their own cleanups with their kids and kids around their vicinity.

This has been working really well for teens and adolescents to energize individuals in their very own locale to go along with their parents in the push to help tidy up the planet.

Also, obviously, it did go viral from there which thousands of thousands of individuals from around the world posted cleanup photographs throughout the week on all kinds of social media platforms, be it Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter, and encouraged others to do likewise.

Overall, the hashtag has been quite successful. Even though the place can’t be seen from real and nothing can be deemed real until the places are actually visited, it is truly a step towards making the world a better place.

What started out as a really simple step towards cleaning the environment is more of a popular hashtag now.

Don’t forget to use it and show off how clean your surroundings look.

Larry O'Connell