Mini Ports Built from Plastic Waste from the River

Specialists and volunteers collected plastic waste and created mini pontoons from it along the River Tisza in eastern Hungary.

The villages and sights of the Tisza are separated from the water by dams and dense floodplain forests, there is hardly a mooring place, there is rarely an information board, so there was a need for mini pontoons called 'Bottlenose Floating Ports'. Plastic ports open gateways between waterways and coastal attractions at three settlements: Tiszakóród, Zsurk and Záhony.

The ports were made through a special process. From the plastic waste collected, selected and shredded from the Tisza, pressed waste sheets were first produced and then the plastic planks were cut to size. Caps for plastic bottles, detergent bottles and soft drink compartments are often made of mixed materials, so they could only be separated using the right technology. In the process, propylene and ethylene had to be separated before the ethylene was melted at high temperature and pressed into a plate at high pressure.