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At 22nd June 2022., at the building of the Directorate of Water Management at the Middle Tisza (KÖTIVIZIG) the 7th National Tisza Roundtable was held within the framework of the INTERREG DTP Tid(y)UP Project.

How a single man in Transcarpathia, Ukraine started to clean up the Tisza - one of Europe’s most polluted rivers - and how he inspired thousands of others to join in?

The latest film created by Naturefilm.hu (Természetfilm.hu) tells the story of the Ukrainian eco-activist Béla Francz and the River Saver Truck.

Registration is open now for the 2022 Plastic Cup events.

The cross-border programme launched by the Plastic Cup two years ago and sponsored by International Investment Bank (IIB) resulted in a great Tisza Expedition, which mapped the total length of the river.

The VI. Regional Tisza Roundtable was held on 13rd September 2021, in Tokaj, as the final chord of the II. Bodrog Plastic Cup and the Interreg DTP Tid(y)Up project, by the Association of Environmental Enterprises and the Filmjungle Association.

In Budapest a pilot project is launched to recover plastic and other waste streams from the Danube.

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.

The IX. Upper-Tisza Plastic Cup fleet, consisting mainly of veteran teams, cleaned the 60-kilometer section of the river between Tiszabecs and Vásárosnamény-Gergelyiugornya from another 6 tonnes of waste.

The Filmjungle.eu Association is organizing the Upper Tisza Plastic boat waste collection competition for the ninth time.

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.

Despite the harsh weather, the defence is taking place with tremendous efforts, civilians, municipalities, lifeguards, and water management experts are working together in trying to stop another wave of pollution.

The Plastic Cup on the River Tisza is one of the most successful civil environmental initiatives in Hungary. Volunteers have been cleaning the river from plenty of rubbish for years now. This year the event took place between 1-9 August, during which the participants freed the river from about 10.5 tonnes of (mostly plastic) waste on the 84-kilometer section from Záhony to Tokaj.

Plastic Cup volunteers found a plastic bottle with a GPS transmitter in front of the Kisköre Hydroelectric Power Plant. The bottle was marked and sent on its way by the Plastic Cup in July 2020, as part of the Zero Waste Tisza River program.

After heaps of pollution and flood, Subcarpathia has at last announced long anticipated news: a plastic processing plant opened in Uzhhorod with the goal of processing plastic bottles and widely increasing their selective collection.

From now on, six tonnes less trash lies beneath the leaves in the flood-basin of Bodrog river, between Sárospatak and Tokaj. The organizers of Plastic Cup used their previous years’ experiences and knowledge for the first time on one of the tributaries of Tisza river.

The PLASTIC Cup fleet of 11 plastic bottle boats finished its journey in Rakamaz. Due to the aligned contribution of mostly veteran, returning plastic pirates, 10,5 tons of trash has been removed from the flood basin.

Coca-Cola Hungary’s environmental protection CSR program, the Zero Waste Tisza has won the International Public Relations Association’s award: the program launched to clean River Tisza and its surrounding has earned the prestigious award in two categories.

In view of the global COVID epidemic, the Admiralty of the Plastic Cup has decided to introduce precautionary measures.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Numerous areas polluted by litter as result of human inattention perturb the beauty of natural habitats and watercourses of Transcarpathia. In order to eliminate these landfills, we need to know their location and size.

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

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.

Four hectares of Nature 2000 floodplain area got rid of litter cover. Our latest action was the cleaning up of a four hectares area of Nature 2000 floodplain forest covered mainly with plastic bottles.

The Filmjungle Society – which has been surveying, monitoring and cleaning the protected floodplain forests, the fabulous river walls and the beautiful bays of the Tisza – received a national award for their work in environmental protection.

We organize the Tisza PLASTIC PIRATES for the 5^th time this summer, which created the mission of protecting and cleaning our country’s 2^nd largest river, calling attention to the continuous contamination of our “fair lover”.

An independent laboratory conducted first a microplastic examination in Hungary.

The PET Cup sailors once again proved this summer that with cooperation, determination, creativity and hard work, it's possible to clear a record amount of waste from the Upper Tisza.

This year, PET Cup pirates will build their boats in Szatmárcseke before they set out on a journey that will cover almost 100 kilometers.

Plastic Cup has experienced significant improvements during the past years owing to the enthusiastic team of organizers, the many volunteers, the support of nearby towns and villages, and the co-operation of governmental institutions and sponsoring companies.

As you may know, the Tisza is still in trouble. Every year more and more waste gets into the river, most of it ending up in the riparian forests.

The goal of the Plastic Cup is to direct and raise public awareness towards the Tisza River in Eastern Europe, where pollution has reached a level that is far too high to continue ignoring.

We’ve all come out as winners! We’ve fished out 2.5 tons of waste from the Tisza.