New Beach had some extra care this morning as nine volunteers from the digital and marketing group spent just over an hour picking up litter. Top offenders were small fragments of both hard (874) & soft (556) plastic.  They also counted 182 food wrappers and 91 bottle tops.  The seagulls expressed their appreciation.  Thanks again Uni Melbourne!

Following strong southerly winds earlier this week, this morning 9 volunteers spent an hour picking up litter from New Beach in Port Melbourne.  Although the beach appeared clean to them from nearby Princes Pier, just over 900 pieces were removed and counted.  The majority were fragments: 307 hard small plastic, 122 soft small plastic and 60 microplastics.  Once the team knew what nurdles were, they also removed 175 of them from the beach.  Thanks for a great effort!!

Blue skies greeted the team from Unisys this morning at New Beach in Port Melbourne.  Upon arrival everyone wondered how we would keep busy for an hour cleaning what appeared to be a clean beach.  It didn't take long for them to realise how many small pieces of plastic were on the sand.  In the hour, a total of 1640 pieces were collected and audited.  The big 'offenders' were small hard plastic fragments (407 pieces), small soft plastic fragments (329 pieces) as well as 154 pieces of polystyrene.  Thanks for the great team effort!!

A fantastic group of 15 volunteers spent 40 minutes cleaning park and surrounding streets near Brunswick St & Gertrude St in Fitzroy despite a rain shower.  A partial audit was conducted folloiwng the clean, yielding 31 CDS-eligible drink containers as well as 26 bottle tops, 22 coffee cups/lids and 12 other cups/lids.  Amazing what a dedicated group can do in even a short amount of time!  Thank you to the lululemon team!! 

A very keen group of 31 volunteers from Macquarie spent an hour on New Beach in Port Melbourne this morning.  They were greeted by strong winds and blue skies.  A full audit was done and 4867 pieces of litter were removed.  The top offenders included nurdles x 1175, small hard plastic fragments x 926, small soft hard plastic fragments x 780 and polystyrene x 300 pieces!  Although these items don't weigh much, it is so important to remove them to prevent the possibility of ingestion by our sea birds and marine life.  This was the 5th clean organised wtih Macquarie.  Many thanks for your efforts and continuing beach cleans with BeachPatrol!

A beach clean on New Beach in Port Melbourne this morning was attended by 14 volunteers from the Essendon Fields office.  Their efforts included a full audit of litter collected with some of the items counted: 419 small hard plastic fragments, 202 large hard plastic fragments, 52 nurdles and 21 bottle tops.  Thank you for helping protect our marine life and sea birds!

Eighteen volunteers from Suncorp's Team Zero discovered that what looks like a clean beach from a distance can be deceiving.  However, after spending an hour helping to remove litter from New Beach they had made a positive difference!  They conducted a full audit adnd we all agreed more pieces were picked up than recorded as there were so many.  A total of 2251 were counted including 529 pieces of polystyrene, 317 pieces of small soft plastic fragments, 310 pieces of small hard plastic fragments and 125 food wrappers. Thanks one and all for your efforts!

We were delighted to partner with local business Keystone Underwriting. The team of 15 cleared hundreds of pieces of plastic from Sandringham beach. In total, 17kg of litter including 38 recyclables and 162 cigarette butts were removed. Thank you for your care for the marine environment!

An enthusiastic team of 9 volunteers helped clean Stony Creek backwash and conducted a partial audit of their findings.  This is a tidal area and water flows from the bay and Stony Creek. In just 45 minutes, 200 bottle tops, 13 cans, 70 plastic drink containers and 4 glass bottles were removed from this area.  Many thanks to Hellmann for this, their 2nd corporate clean with us!

A big THANKS to the 15 enthusaistic volunteers who removed and counted 2603 pieces of litter from New Beach in Port Melbourne.  We all agreed more litter was collected even though not every piece was counted.  The biggest offenders were small hard plastic pieces (530), nurdles (410), small soft plastic pieces (377) and polystyrene pieces (265).  As is often the case, the group were amazed by the amount despite the beach looking clean while looking at it from Princes Pier. Your efforts are appreciated by BeachPatrol and our marine life and sea birds!   Thanks again Stantec!!