Many thanks to the 11 enthusiastic volunteers who spent 45 minutes cleaning around the park and streets of Brunswick St & Gertrude St in Fitzroy.  In this time, they collected 18kg of litter including 25 bottle tops, 8 plastic drink bottles, 12 glass drink bottles and 10 cans.  Great effort in stopping this litter from reaching the stormwater drains, especiallly since rains were on the way.  Thank you to both teams for volunteering!

New Beach in Port Melbourne welcomed another group of volunteers today (3rd within the week)  A big thank you to group of five who removed another 5kg of plastic from the tideline and the rock groyne near Princes Pier.  Our seabirds and wildlife have less ingestible size pieces of plastic to contend with now.  Thanks to the Zendesk team who have now completed 4 beach cleans in the last few years.

Many thanks to the team of 7 from Bega Group for removing plastic litter from New Beach in Port Melbourne.  This enthusiastic group spent an hour on what looked to be a clean beach and collected/counted 1575 pieces of litter.  Although the weight was only 5.65 kgs, the large amount of small pieces ensures a reduced risk of ingestion by our seabirds and marine life.  Thanks again for your efforts!! 

Both a Port Melbourne and South Melbourne beach benefitted from the enthusiastic group from Ciena Communications today.  They did a full audit and removed 671 pieces of litter from both the sand and the vegetation areas.  The top offenders were fragments of small soft plastic (108 pieces) and small hard plastic (83 pieces).  This clean was no April Fools!!  Big thanks to the seven team members!

A huge thank you to the fantastic team of 20 from Mirvac who joined us once again for another successful corporate clean-up! Despite St Kilda Beach being freshly raked that morning, the team filled a 240L bin with 25kgs of litter, including: 

• 89 soft plastics (food wrappers)
• 900 cigarette butts
• 67 bottle tops
• 48 pieces of polystyrene
• 27 plastic straws
• 20 plastic bottles
• 38 cans
• 13 glass bottles
• A lot of construction debris & Cable ties
• Even a botle of wine and full 6-pack of beer!

Thank you to everyone who took part in making our beach cleaner and safer for the community!

 

A brilliant team of volunteers from Orora cleaned up Sandringham beach and foreshore surrounds. Returning for their second event with BeachPatrol, the team removed a staggering 110kg of waste. From the usual piles of plastic, bottles and cans to a car tire, shopping trolley and unfortunately a syringe. 

A sunny afternoon and what appeared to be a clean beach (looking from Princes Pier) greeted 10 enthusiastic volunteers.  After 70 minutes and a full audit, counting and collecting 2037 pieces of litter, a different perspective had emerged.  What a great effort by this group, removing so much plastic which had washed in and was deposited among the leaves and seaweed at the tideline.  Thank you very much to Total Energies H2 Australia!  

A great group of 7 volunteers from Soul Fresh did another Altona beach clean this year.  They did a partial audit and in an hour collected 4kg of litter including 91 cigarette butts, 5 glass bottles, 11 plastic bottles, 11 plastic bottle tops, 3 cans and 8 sauce packets. Many thanks once again for helping care for our beaches and wildlife.

A wonderful group of 7 volunteers opted for a street clean this time (after doing a beach clean last year) and spent an hour and 15 minutes collecting litter from around their Port Melbourne office.  In that time, 1183 pieces of litter were removed, preventing them from making their way into our waterways and hence protecting our wildlife.  Thanks one and all for your efforts! 

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!