On March 5, 2019 a meme was shared on Facebook by Arizona man Byron Roman. Little did he know that the meme (copied from a friend's page and translated from Spanish) was about to change the world forever.

The meme issued a new #challenge to all the "bored teens" to find an area that needed cleaning or maintenance and then post a photo after they'd done something about it.

It featured a man named Yunes Can who, for several years, had been cleaning up his part of the world in Algeria. Some thought he was crazy. His idea of taking a photo of a litter-strewn area, then cleaning it up, and then showing his work was thought bizarre in his home country. In fact he felt alone. But in his eyes he was changing the world! He was being the change he wanted to see!

His Facebook page documenting his great work is here.

The term #trashtag most likely orginated from somebody's creative mind, with the Trash Tag Project, which since September 2015 has created a community of people who find trash and tag the business associated with the single-use rubbish, claiming to have coined the term.

Some also claim that it was started by Basaru Challenge, however their social media posts began around the same time #trashtag trended as a phrase on social media.

Today the #trashtag challenge, or, as it's also known the #yunes_can_challenge, is cleaning up the planet one social media post at a time.

So where to now?

Clearly a worldwide challenge cleaning up litter is fantastic. And us here at Eco Party Box absolutely love it!

So support the #challenge that supports the planet and take part!