Today, a second group of 38 Year 8 students plus staff ventured from St Kilda Skate Park down to St Kilda Pier and back. The beaches had recently been cleaned by City of Port Phillip,  yet these volunteers still collected 25 kg of rubbish, including 152 cigarette butts. 

Everyone was happy and our beautiful Bay creatures will be safer now.

What a pleasure to work with this group of Year 8 students from Melbourne Grammar today!

It was sunny and warm, so a good opportunity to spot and collect lots of small plastic fragments on St Kilda Beach between the pier and Cowderoy Street Creek. This group did a fantastic job.

Overall, students and other volunteers collected 26 kg including a computer monitor. Great to get all this harmful rubbish out of the environment, the home of our Little Penguins and other creatures. 

Thanks for the extra support: Graham from BeachPatrol 3182 St Kilda and Rob and Joan from Love Our Street 3183 Balaclava (who picked up 5 kg extra of rubbish walking from there today). 

Gardiners Creek Elm Grove area received some extra care this morning.  Fifteen students spent an hour removing 12kg of litter and conducted a full audit.  This resulted in 482 pieces of litter not making it into our waterways.  A big THANK YOU to the year 9 students for their efforts!

A brilliant group of Grade 5 students from Brighton Beach Primary School cleaned up! Well done to the team of Waste Warriors who removed a massive 27kg from Brighton Beach, in front of the iconic beach huts.

Among the rubbish were lots of plastic items including 115 bottle tops and 63 straws. There was so much soft plastic and small pieces of hard plastic we didn't have time to count them!

In a space of 35 minutes, 20 students collected 20kg of rubbish on their term 3 clean. A full audit was conducted and these rated as the 'high scoring' items: 245 soft small plastic pieces, 200 microplastics, 131 cigarette butts and 96 soft large plastic pieces.  Thanks to a wonderful team for helping clean Elm Road and Gardiners Creek, Glen Iris.  Look forward to your help again next term!

Special thanks to Julie who coordinated for another group of students from Taiwan to spend time helping with a group clean, this time a LoveOurStreet clean.  (Previous clean was a beach clean in February.)

Fixty six students and 6 staff collected 40.1KG of litter in only about 30 minutes.  The group met at the corner of Whiteman St & Cecil St in South Melbourne and walked along the footpaths on both sides picking up littered items, returning to the start after making a loop along City Rd. Awesome effort! 

Again THANK YOU for helping in our local community; reminding us that we are all part of the same world community!

A total of 4 or 5 mini cleans (the last two on 17 June & 20 June) were done on community walks over the year with the 3 year old kinder classes.  Over 2kgs of little pieces of litter were picked up during this time.  A handful of children were the best spotters and picked up every tiny piece they could find! 

What a great early start to volunteering to clean our environment!  Thanks to all the children. 

A sunny morning greeted 23 students from APC, grade 8, for an indoor presentation on BeachPatrol, LoveOurStreet and plastics in our oceans and waterways.  This was followed by a beach clean and audit.  In total, 18 students collected/counted 1076 pieces of litter from the beaches between the South Melbourne Life Saving Club and the Port Melbourne Yacht Club.  The students learned how to use the LitterStopper app to record their data and learned of the importance of recording data.  All in all a great session with a great group of students!  Thank you APC, grade 8!

The area around Glen Iris Wetlands seemed clean yet sixteen Sacre Coeur Year 9 students collected 8 kg of rubbish from the banks beside Gardiners Creek, the trail and beside the ponds. Litter included dog toys, balls, plastic bags and other soft plastics such as bubble wrap, lolly wrappers, take-away food waste, hazard barrier tape, spray paint and drink cans, cigarette butts, polystyrene chunks and beads.

Also, six dumped bags of rubbish were removed from a water channel and reported via the Snap Send Solve app to Stonnington Council. A dumped shopping trolley was reported to Woolworths.

Students remarked on the plastic that still "festoons" the trees overhanging the creek: likely remnants from the floods in October 2022!

Thanks to Sacre Coeur for a great effort in a short period of time. The waterbirds of the wetlands and other creatures will be safer now.

Fifteen Westall Secondary College students and 2 teachers, attended Mordialloc Beach today.  We collected and discussed many forms plastic from nurdles to bottles and cigarette butts. A full audit was conducted during an hour clean.  Stats: total number of items counted/collected = 644 including 200 nurdles, 183 cigarette butts, 100 soft small plastic pieces and 41 bottle tops.  Great effort and a big thank you!!