BeachPatrol Love Our Street media
See where BeachPatrol & Love Our street groups have been featured in the print, online and TV media.
See where BeachPatrol & Love Our street groups have been featured in the print, online and TV media.
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.
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03 Mar 2022 | ABC News | TV ABC New | Colleen from BeachPatrol Warrnambool is making real change out in her area. She is getting commercial fishermen to remove the plastic inlet part of their lobster pots. These plastic inlets inevitably get broken up and get loose in the ocean. Some wash ashore which is where Colleen finds them. |
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08 Feb 2022 | Warrnambool Standard | News Paper | Warrnambool group Leader Colleen made a walk from Warrnambool to Port Fairy over 7 days to collect pleastic rubbish off the beach. THis story was writen up in the Warrnambool Standard news paper. |
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08 Feb 2022 | 7 Prime Ballarat | 7 Prime TV | Warrnambool BeachPatrol group leader Colleen did a 7 day walk form Warrnambool to Port Fairy picking up plastic rubbish all the way. She laid it all out on a tennis court to show it off. THis story was aired on 7 Prime TV on 8 Feb. |
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10 Nov 2021 | Tidy Town Awards | News Release | Beachpatrol 3280-3284 won the Keep Victoria Beautiful Tidy Town awards 202 for reducing litter in relation to their Better (Cotton) Buds campaign whch raised the issue of cotton buds and their plastic stems causing a lot of beach pollution. This campaign was instrumental in getting the State government to ban plastic stem cotton buds. https://www.facebook.com/colleen.hughson/videos/1329351924150941 |
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01 Oct 2021 | Sustainable Cities Awards | News Release | Love Our Street 3042 Airport West has made it as a finalist in the Sustainable Cities Awarxds for 2021. Congratulations to Luisa and her team there. https://www.kvb.org.au/library/sc21_litter/
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28 Sep 2021 | Warrnambool standard | News Paper | Warrnambool resident Colleen Hughson finds submarine flare at Terry's Beach, bomb squad and military called. UNEXPECTED: Warrnambool resident Colleen Hughson found a submarine flare at Terry's Beach. Picture: Chris Doheny
"It didn't have any writing on it, so I thought I better contact the police about it. I sent them through some photos and then the bomb squad called me. |
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21 Sep 2021 | Portland Observer | News Paper | Colleen Hughson talks about the plastic litter on their local beach Blacks beach as being the worst she had ever seen. |
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27 Jul 2021 | ABC News | ABC News website | Warrnambool BeachPatrol is in the news again with their leader Colleen Hughson discovering a grey sea snot on rocks along the beach they clean. Experts think it is caused by pollution being dumped into the ocean. But no one is owning up to it. |
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21 Jun 2021 | Standdard.net.au | On line News | CREATIVE MESSAGING: Beach Patrol volunteer Genevieve Bale installs a stencil depicting a southern right whale on a storm water drain near Worm Bay Road. A volunteer environment group has turned to street art, installing a 'stencil trail' along Worm Bay Road in an effort to reduce the volume of pollution flowing into surrounding waterways. Warrnambool East Primary School inspired the five stencils, each featuring local fauna such as penguins, southern right whales and leafy sea-dragons. Developed in tandem with a local graphic designer and Coastcare Victoria, the creations were installed on storm water drains to remind the public street litter often travelled through outlets and into rivers and oceans. Group volunteer Colleen Hughson said she hoped the project would become a tourist attraction, while also reminding the public that "pollution in our waterways affects all of us". "Water flowing down storm water drains travels to the nearest creek, river or directly to the sea. Most storm water drains do not have filters to stop the litter from discharging into the ocean," she said. Beach Patrol has already removed over 12,000 cigarette butts and more than 9000 pieces of plastic packaging from surrounding river mouths and beaches over two years. |
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11 Jun 2021 | Channel (News 4 pm | TV Channel 9 | After a big on shore storm, there was a lot of plastic rubbish blown up on to the Port Melbourne beaches. Channel 9 news came and interviewed Ramona and Ross on it. |