Beach Clean Up Program
Community working together to clean up the beaches.
Community working together to clean up the beaches.
The Beach Clean Up Program commenced as a short trial in 2016/17 to address the issue of marine debris on our non-bathing reserves.
Our bathing reserves were being maintained using council's beach sweeper, but the community noticed an increase of waste on our other beaches. To address community concerns, Council established the Beach Clean Up Program.
The initial aims of the trial were to:
The preliminary trial was considered a success, engaging with over 1450 participants, delivering 35 beach clean ups and collecting over 75,000 pieces of litter in 7 months.
This led to a three-year Beach Clean Up Program that commenced in July 2017.
The programs results for the last three financial years are:
Each year the number of volunteer participating in the program has increased. Although the total waste weights have decreased the number of individual pieces of litter continues to increase. The program has helped develop skills within our community which has seen a focus shift to smaller items such as micro-plastics.
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