22 Nov · Youth Run Plogathon, Inspiria Knowledge Campus · Run it with us
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Plogwarts School of Picking & Jogging

Pick up litter. Keep running.

We are a plogging crew from Siliguri. We run, we pick up litter on the way, and we leave our streets a little cleaner than before. No exam. Shoes help.

Join a plogFund a plog22 Nov Plogathon

~135 kg picked · 125+ plog participations · 5 towns · 5 June to 12 Oct 2026

Next class · Sunday, 22 Nov 2026

Youth Run 2026 Plogathon22 Nov

Run it. Pick it. Weigh it.

Inspiria Knowledge Campus, Siliguri. Choose 5K or 10K and plog the route as you run it. Come run it with us.

  • Finish line: weigh your bag.
  • You leave with a medal and a certificate.
  • Plogging partners: Plogwarts with Inspiria NSS Unit I.
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Registration details are shared in the group.

Period 01 · The first class

Our first class was taught by the man who invented plogging.

5 June 2026, Sukna. The flags of India and Sweden, sixty ploggers, and Erik in the blue cap.

Erik Ahlström grinning in a black Plogga cap, a red bag of plastic bottles held high, with Saurav Pradhan in a sun hat and another plogger
Chief guestErik Ahlström in his Plogga cap, with Saurav Pradhan.

Erik Ahlström, who started plogging in Sweden, was chief guest at our first plog on 5 June 2026, World Environment Day, in Sukna. Sixty people came. We picked 40 to 50 kg.

He has tagged Plogwarts among plogging groups worldwide. On our Youth Run post he commented "Great to be part of it".

  • 5 Jun 2026 · Sukna
  • 60 people
  • 40 to 50 kg
Erik Ahlström, in a blue cap, cheering with our crew behind the flags of India and Sweden, 5 June 2026
AssemblyThe flags of India and Sweden, and sixty ploggers. Sukna, 5 June 2026.
Great to be part of it.
Erik Ahlström, on our Youth Run post

Period 02 · The method

Not your regular cleanup drive.

  1. We keep moving.

    A cleanup fixes one spot. A moving group is seen along kilometres of road.

  2. We go where the litter is.

    Forest trails, toy-train tracks, rivers, snow. Not just the easy pavement.

  3. We count it.

    Every bag gets weighed. Weights are approximate, and we say so.
A plogger with a bag jumps a fallen tree on a sunny mountain trail near Darjeeling
Outdoor edJumping a fallen tree on the Tenzing Norgay Trail, Darjeeling.

What a plog is like · Tenzing Norgay Trail

Run a bit. Bend. Pick. Repeat.

From Chowrasta down to Rungdung Khola, with a bag the whole way.

Our classrooms

Our crew standing in a shallow river, gloves on, seen from a bridge
Wet labOur crew in a shallow river, gloves on, seen from a bridge.
A plogger bends to pick litter off the Darjeeling toy-train tracks with a yellow bag
Rail studiesToy-train tracks, Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.
Ploggers crossing a wide field under a storm sky, one carrying a full green bag
Field studiesCrossing the field under a storm sky, a full green bag in hand.
A plogger in a sun hat runs down a town street with a red bag, a yellow bus behind and dogs at the roadside
CivicsA town street on foot, red bag in hand.
Two ploggers walking across snow at Zero Point, Sikkim, bags in hand

Field trip · Zero Point, Sikkim

Litter climbs higher than you think.

So we followed it up to Zero Point, bags in hand.

Period 03 · Report card

What one crew did since June.

Counted 5 June to 12 Oct 2026.

125+plog participations
~135 kgof litter picked
5towns
10terrains
11partners
118K+Instagram views
  • 5 JunFirst plog, with Erik Ahlström.
  • SummerTori Bari team plog: ~17 kg, 11 people.
  • 15 AugWe launch on Instagram.
  • Aug to SepRegular drives and a Strava club.
  • OctoberPlogtober took us into the hills for a month of plogs. Final totals coming soon.
  • 22 NovYouth Run Plogathon.

From the Plogwarts Impact Report 2026. Weights are approximate.

A drone pulls back from the whole crew holding banners behind the day's filled bags

Period 04 · Class photo

Sixty people. One pile.

Our first plog, 5 June 2026, with the day's bags out front.

Overheard

Students on record.

Now I don't think I can litter ever in public again...
A participant from Delhi, after plogging with us
Plastic has reached places where even electricity has yet to.
From a Plogwarts run in the Fapri forest, Siliguri
...thank you @altsaurav @plogwarts for spreading this movement in India ( Siliguri ) you inspired me
Manasa, Hyderabad, after her first plog
Erik Ahlström, centre in a black cap, arm in arm with seven ploggers across a sunny square below a golden statue
Saurav Pradhan, in round glasses and a red bandana, takes a selfie with two ploggers in sun hats on a grassy slope
A plogger grinning with a full sack over his shoulder at dusk

After classClockwise from left: arm in arm with Erik Ahlström, centre in the black cap; Saurav Pradhan, left, with the crew in sun hats; a full sack on the walk back, 5 June 2026.

Period 05 · Enrolment

Admissions open.

Three doors, easiest first. Pick the nearest.

New ploggers in a warm-up circle on the field before the first plog
Warm-upNew ploggers in a circle before the first plog. 5 June 2026.
Door 1 · 10 seconds

Join the WhatsApp group

Hear where the next plog is, and when. Lurking is allowed.

Join on WhatsApp
Door 2 · 1 minute

Join the Strava club

5 to 10 km runs. Bring your pace, we bring bags.

Join on Strava
Door 3 · 3 minutes

Register as a volunteer

Put your name on the roll for plogs and events.

Register to plog

You already own most of the kit.

  • Running shoes
  • A trash bag
  • A glove (one is a start)

Period 06 · Fees

Every plog is free to join. Help us run more of them.

Donations pay for kits (gloves, bags, grabbers), waste pickup and recycling, trees at 1 kg = 1 tree, and transport to the hills.

A kit for a plog

Gloves, bags, grabbers.

A ride to the hills

Transport for Darjeeling and Kurseong plogs.

Trees, 1 kg = 1 tree

Our Climate Week India pledge. On Day 3 of Plogtober we picked 6.4 kg, so 6 trees were pledged.

80G eligible. Receipted by Humrahi Foundation. You pick the amount on the next screen.

Donate to Plogwarts
Saurav Pradhan in a sun hat and round glasses, standing on a tree-lined road with a full bag in each hand
FounderSaurav Pradhan mid-plog, a full bag in each hand.

From our founder

Plogwarts was born here in the Himalayan region, and this is where we're growing it: one street, one trail, one river at a time.

Saurav Pradhan
Runner, social activist and founder of Plogwarts

Faculty and friends

  • Support Wings
  • Siliguri Unique Social Welfare Society
  • Siliguri Canopy Mission
  • Petunia
  • Clearth
  • Chirbirey River Fest
  • Ojas Naturals
  • Campion School
  • GD Goenka Public School
  • Climate Week India '26
  • Inspiria NSS Unit I
Anything Plogwarts, ask Saurav: saurav@myhumrahi.org · +91 78721 06252 · WhatsApp