For more than a decade, a competition that promotes the preservation of Hungary’s natural environments has brought together groups of volunteer ‘pirates’ in the country who try to win the PET Cup by waging a battle against plastic and other waste.
Groups of activists and volunteers collected more than seven tons of waste plastics of the lake Tisza of Hungary as part of a cleaning contest to fight against pollution of Natural spaces.
The teams, called PET Pirates, they sailed with kayaks and makeshift boats to collect waste. The more plastic they accumulated, the closer they were to winning the Copa PET.
The collected waste is classified by color and material. Although the work is methodical, volunteers often find themselves surprised by the type of garbage That find. “This year we found a motorcycle of a child,” said one young participant.
The PET Cup began in 2013 with the objective of remove trash from natural areas from Hungary. That of Lake Tisza is not the only stage that is expected at this time, since those known as PET Pirates will lead the cleaning operation of the contaminated lake in August. floodplain but Bodrog.
