Mentone Beach Patrol hosted a corporate clean with the staff from Niterra Australia. We were grateful to have 9 volunteers help us look after Mentone Beach and help protect the marine the environment. All up the Niterra staff collected 9 bags of rubbish weighing 25.6kgs, including 57 bottles and cans. Thanks for your help Niterra!

A wonderful group of eight volunteers helped to clean New Beach near Princes Pier today.  A full audit of the litter collected was conducted during the clean and although the litter didn't weigh much, 1260 pieces were removed. The top 'culprits' were small soft and small hard pieces of plastic along with food wrappers.  A very well spent hour.  Thank you Substance!

A brilliant group of 26 colleagues from Macquarie cleaned up New Beach in Port Melbourne. The team managed to collect 26 kilos of waste from what looked like a very clean beach! Amongst the piles of rubbish were thousands of plastic items - including 174 bottle tops, 1001 hard bits, 1755 soft pieces and an array of single use plastics. The team also retrieved 10 cans, 4 glass bottles and 47 plastic bottles which will be recycled through Victoria's Container Deposit Scheme.

Thank you to team Macquarie!

Cloudy skies and southerly winds greeted seven volunteers (& 2 dogs) last Friday morning, but didn't deter them from doing a full audit as they picked up litter from a Port Melbourne dog beach. Everyone commented at the end of the clean they thought the beach was 'very clean' at the start and so were amazed 803 pieces of litter were removed.  Thanks to the team for their efforts and making the beach safer for wildlife and the dogs who frequent it as well. 

Mordialloc Beach benefited from a spring clean by the brilliant team of Puma colleagues. 91 of them to be precise! 

This mega clean up saw 23kg of litter removed from the beach and foreshore. A staggering 241 bottles and cans were collected and deposited at a CDS depot. The volunteers counted 200+ nurdles, 250 cigarette butts and 75 bottle tops amongst the litter.

Thanks you team for the great effort you put in to keeping Port Philip Bay clean. 

A wonderful group of 8 volunteers spent an hour collecting litter while doing a full audit this afternoon.  The spot was New Beach, near Princes Pier in Port Melbourne where a 'clean looking' beach yielded 1262 pieces of litter!   By volume, the biggest offenders were a total of 400 soft plastic fragments, followed by 289 hard plastic fragments.  Some of the more recognisable items included 96 bottle tops and 74 food wrappers. 

Many thanks team Dimensional Fund Advisors for spending time cleaning our beaches for a second time! 

For a second year, a team from MLC came out to clean New Beach and conducted a full audit.  Although only 2 full bags were collected, the contents included 900 pieces of litter!  The offenders included 196 small soft plastic fragments, 120 food wrappers, 119 nurdles, 117 small hard plastic fragments and 28 microplastics.  Thanks to all 7 wonderful helpers for  a great team effort! 

Eleven enthusiastic volunteers spent an hour on the big Port Melbourne beach between Station Pier and the Port Melbourne Yacht Club.  Within that time, the beach had 1303 pieces of litter removed from it thanks to their efforts in picking up and auditing the litter.  The highest concentration of items were nurdles, small hard plastic fragments and microplastics.  These may seem insignificant but are all too often ingested by our seabirds and marine life, so taking the time to find and remove them is commendable.  Thanks team Iberdrola!  

Altona Beach had some extra care when 25 volunteers/staff from Emmanuel College spent an hour cleaning the beach.  This amazing group collected 23 bags, total weight of 61.1 KG of rubbish.  Thank you to everyone!! 

Beach clean at New Beach, Port Melbourne:  Conducting a partial audit, a great group of 14 volunteers collected 20 plastic drink containers, 4 cans and 43 bottle tops in 50 minutes.   The total weight of the litter was 13.5 kg.  Thank you for helping make our beaches cleaner and keeping our marine life safer.