Juli (Hungary)
In June we took part in the 3rd TISZA-LAKE competition, which lasted for 5 days. The competition began with shipbuilding. We built the ships ourselves from recycled materials and waste bottles. The kids were travelling on the built boat, the adults were collecting trash with canoes.
At the beginning of the first day, we didn't have any trash, so we paddled. Then we selected the waste, trampled it and packed it into bags grouped by types.
14 teams started in the race and we collected more than 1,500 bags of garbage, which are approx. 7 tons.
The name of our team was the „Tiszai Jak” and we collected almost 300 bags of garbage, with which we won the competition in front of such strong teams as the Erste bank or the Decathlon team.
Plastic Cup (official information)
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.
The key to the success of Plastic Cup is that it’s able to transform a difficult and dangerous exercise, like collecting trash, into a fun and inspiring team building exercise, into the adventure of a lifetime.
Plastic Cup is the first, and as far as we know only, initiative in the world that looks to fight pollution by using pollutants.
The results in numbers:
4068 DISCOVERED HEAVILY POLLUTED COASTAL AREAS
218 t REMOVED POLLUTANTS FROM THE RIVER TISZA
147 BOATS OF WASTE HAVE BEEN BUILT
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