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In Budapest a pilot project is launched to recover plastic and other waste streams from the Danube.
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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The PLASTIC Cup initiative, and its volunteers, the Plastic Pirates assess waste pollution along the entire Tisza River. Their activities affect all countries (Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Serbia) in the Tisza water catchment area.
5 tons of trash is picked from Tisza-lake at the first Plastic Cup competition of the year from Tiszafüred until Kisköre.
Three trash competition were announced this year by Termeszetfilm.hu Organization, founder of Tisza River Plastic Cup.
Even though Hungary lags behind the EU average in terms of waste recylcling, at least two bottles of a six pack mineral water still find their way in the selective bins.
Water Authorities and Plastic Cup worked together on the upper Tisza river, in order to collect and process 22 tons of trash.
Registration is open now for the 2021 Plastic Cup events
As a part of the research and development programme of Tisza Plastic Cup, researchers have released three bottles with GPS trackers, that forward real time data with showing on map their locations.
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