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'PET Pirates' remove seven tonnes of rubbish from Hungarian lake
euronews (in English)
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02/07/2024
A decades-old clean-up competition has left Hungary's largest artificial lake nearly rubbish-free.
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More than 7 tons of plastic waste has been collected from Hungary's Lake Tisza as part
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of a historic clean-up competition.
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The teams, called Pet Pirates, sailed on the artificial lake's high seas with kayaks and
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makeshift boats to gather the waste.
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The more plastic they accumulated, the closer they inched to winning the Pet Cup.
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At least 3 tons of waste is on the boat that everyone is carrying in a life-jacket.
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And all this waste has been collected since this morning.
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While the collected waste is sorted by colour and material, volunteers are always amazed
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by the kind of trash they find.
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We found a small motorbike.
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There was a lot of trash on the motorbike.
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It was pulled apart and dried up.
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There was a lot of trash underneath.
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The Pet Cup started in 2013 with the aim of ridding Hungary's most magnificent natural
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wonders of garbage.
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Pet Pirates will captain clean-up operations at the polluted Bodrog floodplain in August.
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