In Chile, a lawyer and his dog 'plog' to raise recycling awareness

Santiago: It s still dark out, but Chilean lawyer Gonzalo Chiang and his dog Sam are already out jogging and collecting rubbish in Santiago s largest...

Santiago: It's still dark out, but Chilean lawyer Gonzalo Chiang and his dog Sam are already out jogging and collecting rubbish in Santiago's largest park.

Chiang, 38, is on an individual quest to promote the practice of "plogging" -- picking up garbage while on the run -- in a country where recycling lags far behind the Latin American average.

Chiang and Sam the border collie have been plogging together for two years, pioneers in Chile of a practice invented in Sweden in 2016.

The term -- a combination of jogging and the Swedish "plocka," which means "to pick" -- was included as a noun in the Collins Dictionary in 2018.