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Cleanest, Safest Beaches Possible
The BeachPatrol vision is for all beach users to enjoy a clean and safe beach to ensure the safety of our volunteers while removing litter.
04 May
2026
2026
Frequency or proportion in LItter
Ross
posted on
May 04,
2026 09:36
What would you say is the most littered item? How do you decide? Is it what you see the most? What is collected the most? Or is it what keeps appearing, clean after clean, audit after audit, even afte...
03 May
2026
2026
The 500-Year Convenience: Polystyrene
Ross
posted on
May 03,
2026 03:43
Expanded polystyrene, or EPS, is light, cheap, useful and technically recyclable. It is also bulky, easily fragmented, difficult to manage once loose, and regularly found in beaches, streets, waterway...
28 Jan
2026
2026
Plastic Free Bay Report: Bay Beach Litter Audit Findings and Plastic Pellet Pollution - Supporting Evidence from Seaford BeachPatrol’s Plastic Pellet Project - Nurdle Anymore!
Simon Gaites
posted on
Jan 28,
2026 19:05
Compiled by the Port Phillip EcoCentre the report draws on extensive citizen science and identifies Seaford beaches as a plastic litter hotspot — not because it is uniquely worse, but because it...
15 Nov
2025
2025
Tethered Bottle Tops Problem in the USA
Ross
posted on
Nov 15,
2025 03:32
Plastic lids on plastic bottles are one of the most highly littered items. They are too easily thrown away when it is good quality material for recycling. Tethering the tops to the bottles...
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26 Oct
2025
2025
Let’s Talk Trash: The Soy Sauce Fish
Simon Gaites
posted on
Oct 26,
2025 03:39
Used for seconds. Here for centuries.
The first takeaway sushi restaurant opened in Melbourne in 1995. Since then, single-use soy sauce fish have become a familiar sight — and an all-too-comm...
14 Sep
2025
2025