Volunteers work hard to clean up polluted Hennops River
A staggering 4000 bags of rubbish have been removed from various points of the heavily polluted Hennops River.
However, more still needs to be done to remove tons of plastic and rubbish from the river, according to a non-profit organisation that has taken up the task of setting up big nets to capture all the rubbish coming upstream.
Willem Snyman from Fresh.Ngo told the Pretoria News that, on average, they filled up about 150 to 200 bags per clean-up, and sometimes they had several in a month.
“About 50 truck loads of rubbish have also been removed during the clean-up.”
Snyman, who got involved five years ago, said they were concerned about the aqua life that had dwindled significantly, as the river’s situation deteriorated.
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