Southerly winds and even a brief rain shower didn't stop a group of motivated volunteers from removing 2070 pieces of litter from New Beach in Port Melbourne.  Working in groups, a full audit was conducted with the top 3 offenders reporting:  597 small soft plastic fragments, 305 food wrappers and 221 small hard plastic fragments. The tideline had quite a lot of plastic when the group started and much less when they left.  Thanks for your efforts JLL!

Hats off to a great team of 10 volunteers who removed litter from New Beach on a hot morning.  A bit of shade and a breeze helped with their efforts. A full audit was conducted during the hour clean. Top items by quantity: 479 small soft plastic fragments, 322 small hard plastic fragments, 219 food wrappers & 128 pieces of polystyrene.  Other items included 114 microplastics, 71 butts and 52 bottle tops.  TOTAL PIECES REMOVED = 1936

Many thanks to the team for their efforts in cleaning our beaches and protecting our wildlife!

New Beach in Port Melbourne was again happy to have volunteers from Australian Super today to clean this beach. Many thanks to the 26 volunteers who conducted a full audit, counting 3048 pieces of litter from what looked like a pristine beach from Princes Pier.  A total of 952 fragments of soft plastics as well as 942 hard plastic fragments topped the list of items collected along the tideline.  What a great effort by this keen group!  Our seabirds and marine life are safer.

An enthusiastic team from HESTA helped with a beach clean at New Beach near Princes Pier.  They did a full audit of litter collected; identifying the 3 top 'offenders' as follows:  836 small soft plastic pieces, 497 small hard plastic pieces and 281 food wrappers.  Gentle southerlies continued to bring in more plastic but the efforts of the team made a difference.  Many thanks to all for spending time to clean our beaches and help protect our wildlife.  

As part of their end of year / Christmas activities, this wonderful team helped clean the big beach in Port Melbourne between Station Pier and the Yacht Club.  They worked in groups and in just 45 minutes removed 1495 pieces of rubbish, leaving the beach a bit cleaner and safer for our wildlife. 

A total of 573 soft plastic pieces, 165 food wrappers, 147 cigarettte butts, 143 hard plastic pieces and 127 bottle tops all topped the list.

Thanks again for your efforts!

Sunny skies and light southerlies greeted 13 volunteers at New Beach this morning for a full audit beach clean.  In 70 minutes, just over 4000 pieces of mainly plastic litter had been removed (4039 to be exact).  The team found the amount of plastic washing in as we were conducting the clean quite confronting, noting from their start point on Princes Pier the beach looked very clean.  As is often the case, a large amount of litter was found on the tideline amongst the seaweed and leaves.  This included 1442 hard plastic pieces, 1030 soft plastic pieces and 144 bottle tops.  Many thanks to this keen group for their time and efforts!  

Eight volunteers were greeted with sunshine and light winds this morning for their clean of New Beach.  A full audit was conducted and in an hour, the group had recorded 1616 pieces of rubbish.  The top three items were 440 small soft plastic pieces, followed by 330 food wrappers and 300 small hard pieces of plastic.  The majority of the items were collected from the tideline, indicating they had washed in from elsewhere.  Big thanks to the keen volunteers for leaving the beach cleaner than they found it! 

The Warrnambool Breakwater benefitted from a fantastic clean by Saputo today.  Big thanks to the 33 volunteers who spent 3 hours collecting and auditing litter.  A total of 96 kg, 6831 pieces were removed, including 3000 cigarette butts, 2336 pieces of soft plastic, 575 food wrappers and 258 fishing items. A wonderful team effort!  8

On the warmest day of the year so far, 7 colleagues from Jost & Co braved the sun to clean up at Elwood Beach. The team removed 4 kilograms of litter. Their top 5 items were:

100+ Microplastics, 49 Polystyrene, 23 Bottle Tops, 21 Lollipop Sticks, 15 Sauce Packets (all Soy Sauce Fish). Thank you to the team for a job well done!

Mentone Beach Patrol hosted a corporate clean with the staff from Niterra Australia. We were grateful to have 9 volunteers help us look after Mentone Beach and help protect the marine the environment. All up the Niterra staff collected 9 bags of rubbish weighing 25.6kgs, including 57 bottles and cans. Thanks for your help Niterra!