Over a ton of waste gathered at 89.7 Bay’s clean-up with Żibel

On Saturday, 24 March, 89.7 Bay in collaboration with eNGO Żibel, organised a clean-up day. The clean-up was attended by around 170 people coming from large corporations to students’ organisation, NGOs and people from the general public.

Within a span of two hours the overwhelming amount of 1,068.62kg (1.18 tons) was gathered in a sorting area where the waste was then sorted, weighed and put on trucks. This amount was broken down into 777.02kg of general waste, 35kg of plastic, 13.28kg of metal cans, 123.6kg of glass, 59.66kg of fishing gear, 6kg of bottle caps and a fridge weighing 53.5kg.

89.7 Bay and Żibel would like to thank all those who heard their plea and attended in what is considered to be a largely successful clean-up.

With that being said, the Ghajn Tuffieha area, like many other areas in Malta, is still far from clean − 1.18 tons of waste gathered within a 1km stretch of land in a couple of hours, is an eye-opening figure. We must be more wary of our environment. Seeing that amount of waste in such a beautiful and touristic area raises some serious concern. One company or individual cannot make Malta Green and Clean; it has to be a collective effort as a nation to work towards a cleaner Malta, for ourselves and for our future generations. The Making Malta Green and Clean campaign was aimed towards bringing these figures to light and raising awareness about the seriousness of this matter − it is then up to us as a nation to educate and facilitate all the necessary resources towards making Malta a cleaner and greener place.