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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lynn Rusk

Climate activist on 50-city UK clean-up tour calls for action above disruption

Vivek Gurav is behind the world’s largest plogging community (Vivek Gurav/ PA) -

An environmentalist embarking on a 50-city clean-up tour of the UK has said climate action is about individual responsibility rather than “just screaming” for government action.

Vivek Gurav, 29, who lives in Wembley, north-west London, started plogging – jogging and litter picking – in 2019 in his home city of Pune, in western India.

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