In an hour, twelve students from Sacre Coeur help to remove 5.5kgs of rubbish from the Gardiners Creekcreek bed and surrounding area today.   Some of the items counted includd 90 large size fragments of soft plastic, 400 pieces of polystyrene, 11 plastic drink containers and 7 food wrappers.  This is the 3rd of 4 cleans conducted by the students this year.  Great team effort!! 

Two VCE Outdoor Education and Environment classes, 35 students in all, took on the task of clearing a lot if litter from a section of Merri Creek near their school. They powered through the job, removing 72 kg of rubbish, most of it still on the creek banks and up in the riparian vegetation where it had become entangled in the floods of October 17 2022, nine months ago!. 

Apart from bags full of soft plastics, plastic bottles and cans, students pulled out a folding sunlounge, an office chair, a "witch's hat" cone, golf balls, tennis balls, a soccer ball, and outside a building site they picked up dumped tapware and polypipe electrical conduit.

Fantastic effort by these young people. 

17 students came out today for a beach clean at St Kilda.   It was low tide and there had not been much rain in the past week which meant not much plastic rubbish washing around.  However, still a great effort with total weight over 6 Litter Stopper entries was 8 kg, and 270 categorised items plus non-plastic rubbish from this beach that had been freshly cleaned by council machines. 

In 30 mins, these students cleaned along the Gardiners Creek banks, under the Solway Bridge, and collected 

400 large pieces polystyrene, 400 small pieces of polystyrene (estimate only), 60 pieces of foam

50 pieces of plastic (shredded bags/wrappers)

40 plastic bottles, 18 cans (many too dirty to recycle), 1 glass bottle

36 golf balls, 15 balls (tennis/ping pong)

10 plastic soy sushi fish

9 lids (coffee cups/drink bottle lids)

5 nerf gun bullets

2 spoon. 2 plates

2 masks

2 spray can

2 plastic straws

2 plastic take-away sauce packs

1 frisbee

1 tetra pack

1 coat hanger

1 number plate

Many hands make light work.

Thank you to 3145 Love Our Street and Love Our Street 3146 Glen Iris for co-ordinating and helping out on the day.

After only 30 minutes along Saxby Road, Gardiners Creek, 16 students had collected 5kgs of rubbish, counting 370 pieces of litter.  This is the first of 4 cleans that will be conducted by the students this year.  Great to see these students caring for our environment. 

13 students, cleaned in St Kilda, 3 glass, 4 plastic, 3 cans, Hard bits (small & large) = 102, Soft bits (small & Large )= 203

A total of 53 students from 4^th, 5^th & 6^th grades for 30 minute clean at New Beach.  When asked the question Why would we want to pick up rubbish – their reply 'to keep the animals safe'!!

A partial audit was conducted on what was collected: 36 glass bottles, 53 plastic bottles, 45 cans, 12 PPE/ masks, 42 straws, 86 bottle lids, 29 coffee cups/lids, 28 other cups/lids and over 1000  cigarette butts!

Approx 20 students performed a litter pick up along Gardiners creek.   They collected 17 bags of rubbish plus  120 plastic bottles

20 students from Camberwell High School were involved in a clean along Gardiners creek with 3145 Love Our Street group.   They collected 26 kgs of rubbish