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. 

Twelve enthusiastic volunteers spent an hour on Altona Beach picking up litter. They collected 27.49 KG in one hour.  One of the attendees had participated in another corporate group clean a few months ago in Port Melbourne and wanted to make a difference in Altona with other coworkers as well.  Every piece of litter we remove makes a difference.  Thank you for your efforts!!

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.