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In the media

Getting the message across

As the impact of BeachPatrol and Love Our Street grows, we are getting more and more media attention. This helps us broaden the reach of our message and change behaviours. It's vital that more people understand the problem with plastic littering and its impact on wildlife in the oceans and on land. The public awareness we generate drives government and industries to pay attention to our cause.

Recent Media Releases

Release Date Media Name Media Type Subject Story Image
19 Apr 2023 Fox Weather On line News

Rosalind Evans, a beachcomber with Warrnambool's Beach Patrol 3280, was excited after she found the intact yet battered plastic bottle at Fitzroy River estuary during a March 25th cleanup. The group searched for Zepcan on social media and sent her a message.

18 Apr 2023 ABC News On line News

Message found in a bottle.      They weren't hunting coins or treasures, but are members of Warrnambool's Beach Patrol 3280 who spend hours each week picking up rubbish along the coastline.

The letter was inside a plastic drink bottle and contained the sweet notions of a child, written in the careful handwriting of someone who had just got their pen licence. 

 

 

18 Apr 2023 The Standard Warrnambool On line News

Beach Patrol 3280-3284 leader Colleen Hughson has welcomed a container deposit scheme under which a 10-cent refund is given for eligible drink containers returned to a refund collection point. It will come into effect statewide in November.

11 Apr 2023 Standard.net.au On line News

Our Warrnambool group leader Colleen was commenting on the soft plastic waste issue after the demise of the drop of points at grocery stores across Australia. 

29 Mar 2023 Sustainable Monash Council New letter Digital news letter

3147 LOS mentioned in this news letter for picking up local litter on CUAD.

Read the article here.

15 Mar 2023 ABC Radio Overnights Radio

Ross Headifen was invited to talk on this show for 30 minutes on the issue of soft plastics in Australia.

03 Mar 2023 The Standard News Paper

A new generation of volunteers will be Warrnambool's beaches this CUAD.   Along with regular teams of helpers, a new project is encouraging people from multicultural and community groups who have not volunteered before.  

17 Feb 2023 theguardian.com On line

Our Warrnambool group leader Colleen, was mentioned in this article in theguardian.com.  It was an article by the Australian Academy of Sciences saying there needed to be  Call for urgent overhaul of 'astronomical' plastic pollution.

The article said too much reliance was made on volunteers and not enough sounds science put on the problem to quantify for the country the state of plastic pollution.

Read the article here.

17 Feb 2023 Wyndham Star Weekly On line News

The Werribee River Association and Junubi Wyndham joined forces to clean up Lollipop Creek in Wyndham Vale.

“Every piece of rubbish we take out improves their quality of life and ours. It doesn’t make us feel good to see an unloved environment.”

The clean up was Sunday, March 5, meeting at the rear of the Honour Avenue IGA in Wyndham Vale.

“Young people are going to inherit the environment – getting them involved is critical,” Junubi Wyndham program manager Poly Kiyaga.

Read the article here.

06 Dec 2022 Standard.net.au News Paper on line

A number of community groups have bandedtogether to call for dredging to be paused after hundreds of kilos of rubbish washedup on the beach, which they say puts beach users and marine life at risk.