The environmental and fitness trend is an initiative across the world which originated in Sweden in 2016 - and is now growing popularity.
Later this year four Britons - Claire Petrie from Bristol, Cherrelle Amo and Luke Douglas-Home from London and Chris Broadbent from Devon will be heading to Genoa to compete in the World Plogging Championships.
Teams compete against each other to run the farthest and pick up the most rubbish.
