What better way to show Mother Nature that you can than spending an hour doing something for her  on Valentine's Day.

Three years to the day since its inception, Beach Patrol 3280 took out the Inspiring Community Engagement and Education honour in the Victorian Marine and Coastal Awards. Link

Short Intrview on the situation of Mask littered in the environment.

Beach Patrol president Ross Headifen, who with wife Ramona has personally collected 130 masks in the Port Melbourne area since mid-September, said the environmental group’s volunteers reported dumped face masks was a growing issue.
They were typically discarded on the roadside or median strips, with many washing into stormwater and finding their way into the Yarra River and Port Phillip Bay. “We pick up masks every time we go out,’’ Mr Headifen said. “I would say it’s mostly people dropping them, them blowing out of the car or dropping them on the ground. “It’s just very disappointing. “You would think people would pay more attention.”The harm to wildlife, such as fish and birds which could be entangled in ear loops, could be enormous. “Because  hey have two loops on them it makes them quite dangerous,’’ Mr Headifen said. “It’s just sad people are that careless.”

Several of the Mornington Peninsula BeachPatroll groups took  part in the Spring Clean Your Patch  event in October.  We asked people to go out and clean around their own local area for an hour and enter their collection data into the LitterStopper app where it was uploaded to the BeachPatrol website.

BeachPatrol organised a Spring Clean Your Patch event on 18th Oct 2020 to get people out to clean their local area of plastic litter and enter the collection data on to the LitterStopper app where it was  automatically uploaded on to the BeachPatrol website.   TV Channel 9 ran a news article on it.

Beachpatrol conducted a Spring Clean Your Patch event in Oct 2020 to get people to go out around their area and clean up plastic litter for an hour.  The data was entered onto the Litter Stopper phone app which then automatically submitted it on to the BeachPatrol website.

BeachPatrol Warrnambool calls for volunteer help with Spring Clean Your Patch cleanup.

Beach Patrol's Colleen Hughson wants volunteers to don gloves, masks and unfurl bags
to take to their streets, parks and beaches on Sunday to remove single-use plastic litter
as part of a Spring Clean Your Patch event

BeachPatrol was mentioned in the Kingston Council News Letter this past week. THi covers, Mordiallos, Mentone, Parkdale, Aspendale and Chelsea groups.