Water experts and professionals of the PET Cup – the latter awarded with the Curator Prize at the latest Highlights of Hungary – intend to clean a Natura 2000 floodplain forest area between 28 February and 1 March.
PLASTIC CUP
The waste pollution on river Tisza is a huge environmental problem! The PLASTIC Cup, this non-profit, non-governmental initiative, was created to eliminate this problem. This environmental action contributes to clean river Tisza by organizing events, waste collection campaigns spanning several months, team-building activities, exhibitions and professional discussions throughout the year. Our three main goals: conservation of living waters, water sports promotion (kayaking, canoeing) and community building.
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In February 2020 two members of the Tisza Plastic Cup Movement – waste management professional Gergely Hankó and nature documentary film maker Attila Dávid Molnár – went to Uzhhorod, Ukraine.
Owing to the financial support of the International Investment Bank, the Plastic Cup is starting an expedition along the full length of the Tisza as part of the CLEAN WATER, HAPPY TISZA programme. The experts of the Plastic Cup are going to measure the most polluted areas with the help of volunteers, waste management experts and researchers.
The three-party collaboration announced in mid-July by Plastic Cup, the General Directorate of Water Management and Coca-Cola has been closed with the stopping, removal and recycling of 10 000 tonnes of waste and drift wood collected at the Kisköre Dam.
The source of the inspiration, the original award in a Scottish visitor centre. So the award was doing its job – it attracted attention.
Participants of the environmental initiative Plastic Cup have removed approximately 70 tons of contamination from the river Tisza. To avoid further pollution and to preserve restored areas in their favorable condition, international cooperation became more important than ever.
On 3, September 2019, the Upper Tisza Zero Waste Project was launched in Vásárosnamény, with the participation of János Áder, President of the Republic, Dr. Sándor Pintér, Interior Minister and István Láng, Director of the General Directorate of Water Management.
The result of this year’s first monumental floodplain cleaning event was that the PET Cup team collected 35000 plastic bottles on the Upper Tisza.
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