Many believe that PLASTIC Cup is only one week in the summer and during the rest of the year every Plastic Pirate is waiting impatiently for the next summer. With this article, we would like to show that this is not true and at the same time say thank you to the close-knit and anytime ready volunteers
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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After two very successful and effective roundtables in Hungary on the topic of Transcarpathia, this round table is going to gather 30-40 participants from all relevant target group, with the aim of developing a list of priorities.
The sixth PLASTIC Cup last week attracted record breaking number of participants at the Upper Tisza river, Hungary. The traditional clean-up event was organized between Szatmárcseke and Tiszamogyorós this year, and unfortunately it broke all previous records.
This year's – altogether for the sixth occasion – 10-day waste picking derby at river Tisza will take place between 4-12 August 2018 on 70 km from Szatmárcseke to Tiszamogyorós, combined with a Transcarpathian pre-race in the days before the Cup.
Similar to the Plastic Cup and inspired by it, teams of young people built boats of various sizes and other objects, such as palm trees, using plastic bottles and other wastes.
Our latest action was the cleaning up of a four hectares area of Nature 2000 floodplain forest covered mainly with plastic bottles. In three days, we collected 1200 bags of litter from the spot along the river Tisza between Vásárosnamény and Tiszaszalka.
The Filmjungle Society – which has been surveying, monitoring and cleaning the protected floodplain forests...
An independent laboratory conducted first a microplastic examination in Hungary.
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