{"id":16235,"date":"2013-04-22T00:19:54","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T14:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/blog\/?p=16235"},"modified":"2015-12-11T15:10:04","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T23:10:04","slug":"cito-2013-it-takes-a-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/cito-2013-it-takes-a-village\/","title":{"rendered":"CITO 2013 – It Takes a Village"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Congrats Space Coast Geocachers… 9 events, More than 200 geocachers and 4300 lbs of garbage collected!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s takes a village to do many things, say, raise a child. It also takes a motivated village to clean up the earth. The village geocachers created with Cache In Trash Out (CITO) events has a population of 11,124. That’s the population of Fredonia, New York. That’s the exact number \u00a0CITO souvenirs that have been earned by geocachers who have logged an “Attended” for a CITO event so far. \u00a0Geocachers attended hundreds of events in dozens of countries from April 20 through April 22. If each geocacher picked up ten pounds of trash, that’s over 50 tons of garbage removed from geocaching areas worldwide.<\/p>\n

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Geocachers in Montana cleaning the roadside.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s the same weights as a couple army tanks or say a large metal bridge. But each piece of litter was a crumpled wrapper or an old tire or a \u00a0piece of discarded lumber. It’s 50 tons of trash that’s no longer polluting that earth. Well done geocachers, well done.<\/p>\n

CITO weekend isn’t over yet. It continues today during\u00a0Earth Day. Expect the final total number of geocachers who earned the CITO souvenir within the next couple of days.<\/p>\n

Geocachers from around the world posted pictures of their CITO events on the Geocaching Facebook page<\/a>. We chose a few of the photos posted to feature in this blog.<\/p>\n

While the CITO weekend occurs only once a year, please CITO every time you geocache. It’s as easy as packing out a few soda bottles or a few pieces of litter. It may not seem like much, but when we all do it, it adds up quick!<\/p>\n

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45 geocachers attended GC494V1 \u00a0near Suhl, Germany to clean up all this trash.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"CITO
CITO is for all ages. Kids, Caching and Cleaning CITO GC48DD9 in Ontario, Canada<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"CITO
CITO in Costa Dorada, Spain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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It’s takes a village to do many things, say, raise a child. It also takes a motivated village to clean up the earth. The village geocachers created with Cache In Trash Out (CITO) events has a population of 11,124. That’s the population of Fredonia, New York. That’s the exact number \u00a0CITO souvenirs that have been…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,136],"tags":[146],"series":[],"class_list":["post-16235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cache-in-trash-out","category-environment","tag-cache-in-trash-out"],"episode_featured_image":false,"episode_player_image":"https:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/seriously-simple-podcasting\/assets\/images\/no-album-art.png","download_link":"","player_link":"","audio_player":false,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"},"stitcher":{"key":"stitcher","url":"","label":"Stitcher","class":"stitcher","icon":"stitcher.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/blog\/feed\/podcast\/inside-geocaching-hq-podcast","embedCode":"

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