Around four million devotees joined the traslacion this year which took 21 hours and seven minutes. Check out photos  of the yearly procession and read the story here.

Environmental group EcoWaste Coalition laments the trash left behind by devotees of the Black Nazarene during the annual traslacion.

Some of the trash cleaned up by the group's volunteers include urine-filled plastic bottles, diapers, mucky wipes, makeshift beddings, food containers and leftovers, and plastic containers and cutlery, among others.

“Our public appeal for a trash-less Traslacion has again fallen on deaf ears. Many people unashamedly threw their garbage anywhere turning the parade ground fronting the Quirino Grandstand into a dumping ground,” said Daniel Alejandre, Zero Waste campaigner of EcoWaste Coalition.

Days before the procession, the group called on the public for a clean traslacion and not a "trash-lacion."