'PET Pirates' remove seven tonnes of rubbish from Hungarian lake

A decades-old clean-up competition has left Hungary's largest artificial lake nearly rubbish-free.

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00:00More than 7 tons of plastic waste has been collected from Hungary's Lake Tisza as part

00:08of a historic clean-up competition.

00:11The teams, called Pet Pirates, sailed on the artificial lake's high seas with kayaks and

00:16makeshift boats to gather the waste.

00:19The more plastic they accumulated, the closer they inched to winning the Pet Cup.

00:24At least 3 tons of waste is on the boat that everyone is carrying in a life-jacket.

00:29And all this waste has been collected since this morning.

00:35While the collected waste is sorted by colour and material, volunteers are always amazed

00:41by the kind of trash they find.

00:46We found a small motorbike.

00:49There was a lot of trash on the motorbike.

00:51It was pulled apart and dried up.

00:53There was a lot of trash underneath.

00:55The Pet Cup started in 2013 with the aim of ridding Hungary's most magnificent natural

01:01wonders of garbage.

01:03Pet Pirates will captain clean-up operations at the polluted Bodrog floodplain in August.