The Fresh NGO team with CEO Willem Snyman have estimated, after loading 32 eight-ton trucks with waste collected by their trash-catching net, that they have successfully removed nearly 250 tons of plastic and waste debris from the Hennops River.
The net they have set up under a low-lying bridge along the river near Centurion’s SuperSport Park just over two weeks ago, is one of several they have installed intending to catch the trash floating downstream.
The net stretches the entire length of the bridge – an area where the trash and plastics floating downstream often accumulates in extraordinary amounts. The net is not intended to survive major flooding and should rather be seen as a temporary structure designed to help contain the steady flow of trash poisoning the river.