[Sea and Japan Project Public Relations Office] “Spo GOMI Koshien 2024 Shimane Prefecture Tournament” was held.The winning team was Kaisei High School’s “Nakai” team with 66 participants who collected 36.9Kg of garbage!
Sea and Japan Project Public Relations Office Press release: October 28, 2024 “Spo GOMI Koshien 2024 Shimane Prefecture Tournament” was held. The winning team was Kaisei High School’s “Nakai” team with 66 participants who collected 36.9Kg of garbage! Saturday, October 19, 2024 Izumo City Takicho/Kirara Beach The Social Sports Foundation and the Sea and Japan Project in Shimane are organizing teams of 15 to 18-year-old high school students who have formed teams of three to collect trash within a designated area within a 40-minute time limit. The “Spo GOMI Koshien 2024 Shimane Prefecture Tournament” was held on October 19th (Saturday), where people pick up items and compete for points based on their quality and quantity. 66 people from 22 teams participated in the tournament. The amount of garbage picked up by all participants was 36.9 kg, and the team “Nakai” from Kaisei High School won. This event will be held as part of the Marine and Japan Project – CHANGE FOR THE BLUE, a marine litter countermeasure project promoted by the Nippon Foundation. Image
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https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/77920/3012/77920-3012-edf9b3986e122df7bb503c49dfdae19f-512×341.jpg The Taisha High School baseball team that moved the nation into a whirlwind of excitement at Koshien will be participating! Two teams from Taisha High School’s baseball club, which attracted national attention by defeating powerful schools one after another to reach the top eight at Koshien this summer, also participated: “Infinite Possibilities” and “Team Mane.” To express my gratitude for the support I received from the local community and to give something back to the community, I decided to participate and fought against trash at “Koshien,” which is different from baseball.
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https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/77920/3012/77920-3012-129a303fea7865e5f70ffc5b9b201441-512×341.jpg Unique original items are coming one after another! The total amount of garbage collected was 36.9 kg. In this competition, 5 teams created original items and competed. Each item has its own ingenuity, such as a box with the catchphrase “Don’t litter, let’s pick up”, a box with sleds, and a box with compartments that allow for detailed separation. We heard comments from participants such as “I want to keep the coast as clean as possible” and “Spo GOMI lets you pick up trash while having fun.” At the end of the 40-minute competition, the total amount of trash picked up by all participants was 36.9 kg.
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https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/77920/3012/77920-3012-1c249c7cf85f7306dbade855fe6d496b-512×341.jpg The winner is “Nakai”! Kaisei High School won the prefectural tournament for 3 years in a row! The strategy of collecting cigarette butts and plastic bottles, which have high points, was successful, and Kaisei High School’s Nakai won the event. The total amount of trash picked up by the team was 5.1 kg, which earned them 510.5 points. Kaisei High School’s baseball team has won the championship for the third consecutive year. Second place was “Jonetsu Bambino” from Kaisei High School with 442.5 points. Third place goes to Taisha High School’s Team Mane with 441 points. The original item award went to “TEAM Friends” from Matsue Minami High School, who created an item with wheels that allows them to move smoothly even when picking up a lot of heavy garbage. The “Spo GOMI Koshien National Tournament” will be held in Sumida Ward, Tokyo on Sunday, December 1st, where representatives from 40 prefectures from all over the country will compete to be the best in Japan in picking up trash. The members of Nakai, who will be participating in the national tournament, are enthusiastic and say, “We want to do our best to win in Tokyo as well.”
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https://www.spogomi.or.jp/ Activities: Operations necessary for holding and operating events related to Sports GOMI Koshien. Image
URL: https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/77920/3012/77920-3012-73b54130bb69662dd541f7b3bfba9339-632×260.png CHANGE FOR THE BLUE As part of the Nippon Foundation’s “Ocean and Japan Project,” the 2018 This is a project that has been underway since November. We will work with stakeholders from industry, government, academia, and the public to create a marine litter reduction model and disseminate it domestically and internationally. https://uminohi.jp/umigomi/
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