A whopping 568.12kg of waste was picked up by around 106 divers, free divers and coastal volunteers in Ta’ L-Għażżien Bay, St Paul’s Bay.
The clean up, organised by NGO Zibel, and supported by Saving Our Blue Malta, ERA and the Ministry for the Environment, saw a large group of volunteers contributing to keeping Malta’s coastline cleaner.
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They all managed to pick up 168.16kg of plastic, 54.74kg of ropes and fishing gear, and 5.50kg worth of glass. 112.56kg of metal and 228kg of mixed waste was also recovered, amounting to the total of 568.12kg of waste.
‘What a turnout! The clean-up at this location is always one of our favourites, we get to meet a lot of our volunteers who live in the area as well as the great guys at Simenta Malta for hosting us on the day’, explained the NGO.
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