Tags Plastic Pollution Polluted Waters Plastic Bottles Plastics Single Use Plastics Litter Waste Rubbish Rivers River Waters Durban South Africa Africa

Litter Floats in the Umgeni River

Litter including plastic bottles and containers float in the Umgeni river in Durban, South Africa, stopped from floating further down the river by a pipe as part of the Litterboom project river clean-up effort.

Image ID 56738405
Production Year 2024
Length 00:00:21
Production Company Open Planet Studios
ResolutionUHD ProRes UHD HD
FormatMP4 MOV

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The Litterboom project is an initiative founded in 2017, that helps to prevent ocean plastic pollution in South Africa from reaching the ocean. This is done by anchoring a large pipe across different river pollution hotspots, where teams of river wardens intercept and remove the surface-level plastic from these rivers, as part of a long-term mitigation method.

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Let it Rain Films