A team of 35 colleagues from Kao Australia & New Zealand helped clean up Gardiner's Creek. After heavy rain there was so much debris, mainly plastic. A lot of polystyrene was embedded in the river banks, and the team found over 30 plastic balls spread around the creek. Well done for clearing 27kg of litter from the ecosystem.

An enthusiastic group of 15 volunteers participated in a beach clean at New Beach today.  A full audit was conducted with the litter collected.  Many were amazed to see how much plastic there was on what looked like a perfectly clean beach from the footpath.  A large amount was collected at the tideline following southerly winds.  A total of 1822 pieces were removed.  Excellent effort!  Thanks to everyone for helping make our beaches safer for seabirds and marine life. 

On a sunny Sunday morning, 11 volunteers from Hellmann including family members spent time cleaning Altona Beach.  They collected 10kg of litter which is now no longer a threat to our marine life and seabirds.  Thank you for your great team effort!

A sunny morning greeted nineteen enthusiastic volunteers from K-Line and Kawasaki Australia for a beach clean.  After a brief introduction on Princes Pier, the group spent the next 65 minutes removing litter from New Beach.  In particular, there was a build up of plastic litter in the corner near the rock groynes and one eager volunteer even removed quite a bit of plastic from the water's edge as well.  In total 2987 pieces were collected/counted, including 1337 small soft plastic pieces, 383 small hard plastic pieces and 370 food wrappers.  Total weight was 24.5 kg and all of this all from what appeared to be a 'clean beach' at the start!  Many thanks to the team for their efforts and helping our marine life.  

This enthusiastic group spent 45 minutes picking up litter on several blocks near their workplace and were amazed at the amount they found.  A partial audit was conducted on the following items with findings: 38 coffee cups/lids, 6 glass bottles, 9 plastic bottltes, 12 drink cans and 1 syringe.  The amount of cigarette butts was approximately 500.  Sadly many of them were found near bins/ashtrays!  The streets and footpaths looked much better following the efforts of this team.  Thank you!

A brilliant team of 5 volunteers from Civica spent an hour and a half cleaning St Kilda Beach, opposite Luna Park. We watched as the council mechanical cleanign process took place just before we started.

The team counted 470 pieces of soft plastic, 97 pieces of hard plastic 19 plastic bottles, 9 glass bottles, 28 cans, 12 cups and a huge pile of other litter. 35 kg in total

Thank you for making such a difference to the marine environment

Twelve terrific volunteers from Trevipay really got stuck into the mess that had washed up on New Beach, Port Melbourne on a windy Wednesday, 10th April. Thankfully the rain stayed away.

The collection of 11 kg  and over 2000 pieces of plastic was dominated by so many small pieces of soft plastic (1262), plastic bags or bits of bags (253), microplastics (116), small hard plastic fragments (105). The team also collected 85 food wrappers, 27 balloons, 23 plastic straws, a towel, a belt, two balls, a golf tee, corks and so much more. Trying to identify just what many pieces once were would challenge an archaeologist we decided!

The creatures of Port Phillip Bay thank Trevipay. Great effort today. 🙏🐧👍🦈👍🐟🙏🌏

A lovely bunch of 6 volunteers spent an hour this afternoon cleaning Altona beach.  A total of 13.9kg of rubbish was removed, including 100 cigarette butts.  Great team effort.  Thanks for helping to keep our beach safer for our wildlife.

Blue skies greeted the eager volunteers from Macquarie (including a few who have previously volunteered) who helped clean New Beach near Princes Pier.  The team worked in groups of 3 or 4 and in an hour collected 31kg of rubbish.  Several drink containers and larger items were retrieved on the sand under the pier while smaller pieces of plastic, both hard and soft, were collected from the tideline. 

All in all, a great team effort with a total of 2297 pieces of rubbish removed.  Quite a few seagulls 'supervised' the clean, grateful for the cleaner environment.  Thank you from all of our wildlife! 

Beautiful sunny St Kilda morning with just a light breeze: perfect for these volunteers from Mirvac to help clean up the beach. Council machines had cleaned the main part of the sand, so the volunteers concentrated along the low tide line, along the promenade wall, in the vegetation and on the grass. The grassy area hid lots of cigarette butts, bottle tops and wrappers that had been chopped up by lawn mowers after weekend crowds. The 15 kg of rubbish included over 700 cigarette butts, lots of drink bottles and cans, food wrappers, sauce sachets and fish, hundreds of hard and soft plastic fragments, polystyrene,  cable tie snips, over 150 bottle tops, a syringe, a power cord and a dummy. Lots of broken glass was also picked up. Nearly 2000 pieces of plastic rubbish are now safely binned. Beach goers and our creatures will be a lot happier. Thank you Mirvac