【2003 Archives】

Forget about Hygge003 Archives Lagom, and Ikea's attempt to start a twin duvet revolution. There's a new Scandinavian trend in town.

SEE ALSO: Ikea wants you to try a Swedish sleep trend that could save your relationship

This trend encourages people to pick up litter while out running. So, it's not just good for your health, it's also good for the environment.

It's called 'plogging'—a portmanteau of jogging and the Swedish plocka upp, meaning 'pick up.'

So hot is this new trend that fitness app Lifesum is allowing its users to log and track their plogging activity as a workout.

Plogging combines going for a run with intermittent squatting or lunging (to collect rubbish), which actually sounds like a pretty satisfying workout. According to Lifesum, a typical user will burn 288 calories in 30 minutes of plogging, which is more or less the same as what's burned off while jogging.

Mashable Trend Report Decode what’s viral, what’s next, and what it all means. Sign up for Mashable’s weekly Trend Report newsletter. By clicking Sign Me Up, you confirm you are 16+ and agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Thanks for signing up!

As with all fitness trends, there are plenty of #plogging pics on Instagram, offering a glimpse of what this trend looks like IRL. Ploggers take plastic bags along with them so they can store the collected litter they find along their route.

View this post on Instagram

View this post on Instagram

Swedish fitness app Lifesum claims it's the first health app to allows its 25 million users to log their plogging activity. Those using the health app can log plogging as a fitness activity, in the same way that they would log running or walking, and the app will estimate how many calories have been burned.

Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable

Lifesum has also teamed up with the non-profit Keep America Beautiful to provide an online resource for ploggers who want to log the rubbish they've collected.

Mike Rosen, senior vice president at Keep America Beautiful, thinks plogging is a great way to encourage people to make a difference in their local environment.

"Plogging is brilliant because it is simple and fun, while empowering everyone to help create cleaner, greener and more beautiful communities," Rosen said in a statement. "All you need is running gear and a bag for trash or recyclables, and you are not only improving your own health, but your local community too."

Plog away!

---

Featured Video For You

---

The coldest village on Earth can make your face look like a popsicle

---

• Entertainment
• Games
• Life
• Tech
• Digital Culture
• Science
• Shopping
• Deals

• Best robot vacuum deal: Eufy Omni C20 robot vacuum and mop at record
• This Is Spinal Fusion by Rebecca Buckwalter
• Page Views by Sadie Stein
• Literary Vigilantes, and Other News by Sadie Stein
• Google Pixel Buds Pro 2: $40 off at Amazon
• Happy Election Day by Sadie Stein
• Recapping Dante: Canto 5, or A Note on the Translation by Alexander Aciman
• Novena by Sadie Stein
• AMD Radeon RX 550 + Intel Pentium G4560
• The Great Columbia Book Slide of 1934 by Sadie Stein

• An interview with Daniel Menaker, author of the memoir “My Mistake”
• In 2014, Subscribe to the Paris Review and McSweeney's
• The Morning Roundup for January 31, 2014
• Candlemas Day by Sadie Stein
• Like the Cat That Got the Cream
• From the Margins by Dan Piepenbring
• Last Chance to Subscribe to the Dual Paris Review and McSweeney’s Subscription Deal
• The Morning News Roundup for February 12, 2014
• The Morning News Roundup for February 7, 2014
• Tonight: Lorin Stein Introduces Elif Batuman and Gary Shteyngart

• A Typical Wall Street Republican
• Shopping for Groceries with the Romantic Poets by Jason Novak
• Celebrate Pi Day with a fun Google calculator Easter egg
• Buddhists offer their own form of online meditation — and it's nothing like the apps
• Today's Hurdle hints and answers for May 12, 2025
• Literary Cultural Districts, and Other News by Sadie Stein
• Persuasion by Sadie Stein
• Punio, Punire by Susannah Hunnewell
• Best Hydro Flask deal: Save $10 on a 24
• Facebook wants to help you get vaxxed

• NYT Connections hints and answers for May 18: Tips to solve 'Connections' #707.
• 'Quordle' today: See each 'Quordle' answer and hints for July 17
• Celebrate Pi Day with a fun Google calculator Easter egg
• Viral Fleetwood Mac skateboarding TikTok is for sale as a $500,000 NFT
• Skype is finally shutting down
• What We’re Loving: Self
• Recapping Dante: Canto 6, or Crowdsourcing by Alexander Aciman
• Mischief Night by Sadie Stein
• This is the fattest of the extremely fat bears
• Sit and Cry with the Door Closed by Brian Cullman