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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
02 Dec 2022 ABC News ABC News website

A dredging operation in Warrnambool is digging up a lot of litter and dumping it on to beaches. BeachPatrol 3280 leader Colleen Hughson says an alarming amount of rubbish has washed up on the beach as a result of the dredging. In three days, volunteers collected 80 kilograms of rubbish and more than 640 shredded cans.   

"The beach looked like a rubbish tip," Ms Hughson said.  "There's more washing in each day."   Some of the rubbish is dated back to the 1980s and includes bread bag tags, spoons, bottles, margarine containers and even coal.

Learn more here.

 

01 Dec 2022 Let's Talk Bayside News Paper

The BeachPatrol 3193 group of Ricketts Point featured in a full page story in this month's issue.   

Read the article here.

28 Nov 2022 www.standard.net On line News

Dredging at Warrnambool's historic breakwater is depositing a "frightening" amount of "dangerous"litter onto the beach.  BeachPatrol 3280 leader Colleen Hughson said volunteers had collected 78 kilograms of rubbish deposited by the works in the past three days.  "A lot of people have been concerned about it," she said. "All this litter off the breakwater has sunk to the bottom of the ocean floor, it's been covered up with sand for many years and now it's all being dredged up.  "The dredging machine is actually ripping up the rubbish. We've collected over 600 shredded aluminium cans on the beach, it's quite a danger to beach walkers."

Read the article here.

19 Nov 2022 Southern FM Radio Radio

Our Sandringham 3191 BeachPatrol group leaders were interviewed to talk about the 3191 group in Sandringham and what they find there.   

Listen to the show here.

08 Oct 2022 Herald Sun News Paper

Photo of the collection of drink bottles and cans collected in Spring Clean the City event.  100 people for 2 hours cleaning the streets of Melbouren CBD and bring it all back for display on South Bank.

08 Oct 2022 Channel 7 News TV 7 News

Channel 7 news briefly covered the Spring Clean the City event on Oct 8th
https://twitter.com/7newsmelbourne/status/1578652676832825345?s=46&t=QRnbb18qISwEi5J04w2u0A

28 Sep 2022 Herald Sun News Paper

Promoting interest in the upcoming Spring Clean the City event to clean all of the Melbourne CBD of single use plastic.

12 Sep 2022 Start Weekly Wyndham News Paper

A new Love our Streeet group had a trial run today in Point Cook.

https://wyndham.starweekly.com.au/news/clean-up-group-launches-in-point-cook/

 

02 Sep 2022 Geelong Independent News Paper

BeachPatrol 3220 has organsied a coporate clean with Telstra on the Eastern Beach in Geelong.   News of he event was on the front page of the Geelong Independent news paper.   The news can be seen in this link here

 

 

 

22 Aug 2022 ABC Radio Radio

THe ABC interviewed BeachPatrol on the excessive litter left by fishermen.