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In the media

Getting the message across

As the impact of BeachPatrol and Love Our Street grows, we are getting more and more media attention. This helps us broaden the reach of our message and change behaviours. It's vital that more people understand the problem with plastic littering and its impact on wildlife in the oceans and on land. The public awareness we generate drives government and industries to pay attention to our cause.

Recent Media Releases

Release Date Media Name Media Type Subject Story Image
22 Aug 2022 3AW Radio Radio

3AW Radio did a follow up interview on the excessvie litter left by fishermen

21 Aug 2022 Herald Sun News Paper

The Sun carried a story on the excessive litter left by fishermen.

21 Aug 2022 RPP FM Radio Radio

RPP FM mornington Radio did a follow up story on the exessive litter left by fishermen

04 Aug 2022 ABC News ABC News website

An unusual object was found by our Warrnambool group leaser Colleen and some friends.   Space junk that had fallen from the sky and not disintegrated upon reentry.  A rocket fuel pressure cylinder.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-06/space-junk-identified-yambuk-australian-space-agency/101300496

 

19 Jul 2022 Wnydham Starweekly News Paper

Love Our Street 3030

A Love Our Street clean up group co-ordinator is urging Wyndham residents to properly dispose of polystyrene, after volunteers cleaned about 35 waffle pods from the Werribee River in Manor Lakes.

wyndham.starweekly.com.au/news/clean-up-crews-polystyrene-concerns/

11 Jul 2022 Radio 3MDR Radio

Interview with BeachPatrol and what we do

17 Jun 2022 Wyndham Starweekly News Paper

BeachPatrol 3030

Despite a recent report by the CSIRO suggesting Australian coastal plastic pollution had decreased by 29 per cent, Beach Patrol coordinator Rob Bradley said he doesn’t think the findings were accurate for Wyndham.

“I don’t think it has reduced as much…there’s still a heap of plastic going out in waterways and it’s a problem,” Mr Bradley said.

“We were out at the weekend, there was heaps of rubbish just dumped there.”

Mr Bradley said the crew had been cleaning “pretty disgusting” rubbish at end of Crawford’s Road, which had been a “hotspot for a long time”.

wyndham.starweekly.com.au/news/pretty-disgusting-rubbish-litters-wyndhams-beaches/

16 Jun 2022 Star Weekely News Maribyrnong News Paper

 

https://maribyrnonghobsonsbay.starweekly.com.au/news/local-volunteer-rubbishes-csiro-beach-waste-data/

An Altona Beach Patrol 3018 co-ordinator and volunteer has said a Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation [CSIRO] report showing plastic on Australian beaches had dropped by an average of 29 per cent was not reflective of the amount of waste on Altona Beach.

Sacha Blomer, who is one of the co-ordinators of the group which meets monthly to clean up the Altona Beach, said her experience at Altona Beach was that the amount of rubbish was growing at a rapid rate.

“The reality on the ground – from someone who is regularly collecting plastic from the beach – is that the amount of plastic rubbish found on our beaches has increased exponentially in just the last five years,” she said.

06 Apr 2022 Start Weekly News Paper

Lisa of the LOS 3030 Werribee group featured in an article recently on using the Litterstopper app to record plastic rubbish pick ups.

https://wyndham.starweekly.com.au/news/litter-app-to-count-trash/

03 Mar 2022 ABC News TV ABC New

Colleen from BeachPatrol Warrnambool is making real change  out in her area.  She is getting commercial fishermen to remove the plastic inlet part of their lobster pots.  These plastic inlets inevitably get broken up and get loose in the ocean.  Some wash ashore which is where Colleen finds them.   

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-02/lobster-pot-environmental-impact-plastic-free-warrnambool/100871510?fbclid=IwAR2a7s00RqOipzv7ZNQRw108X8LaPZotB_z_7ILNeYuRgeqFyYD2kbbPIwM