ON Clean Up Australia Day on Sunday, Narooma and District Lions Club timed their clean-up perfectly, just after the thunderstorm passed at 2pm.
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Lions and friends set off from Dalmeny footbridge opposite the IGA, working their way south to the campground and along Mummaga Lake foreshore to Binalong Street, as well as the other side of the footbridge on the beach and dunes in Eurobodalla National Park.
The rubbish haul was gathered at the corner of Binalong Street and Dalmeny Drive, comprising ten full bags of bottles, plastic, cans, wrappers and as well as a mattress and two bicycles.
“It's amazing how much rubbish is out there; the more you look, the more you find. I suppose some of it is accidentally lost, but obviously there is deliberate and thoughtless littering,” club member Paul Hattersley said.
“On the dunes, out of sight, you find groups of cans, bottles, bongs and plastic litter, then there is the stuff that washes down the drains from the streets and is lobbed away by the shared pathway.
“It think it's politely called 'fouling' in your own backyard, by a small minority. Most people do the right thing and also regularly pick up stuff from beaches and the pathways.”
Narooma Little Lake Landcare group members Gillian Kearney and Heather McMillan were joined by Laurelle Pacey on Clean Up Australia Day on Sunday. They picked up rubbish along Wilcocks Avenue and on Main Beach and also did a bit of weed removal.
Last Friday, Narooma Public School held its annual Clean Up Australia Day.
Stages were assigned their own areas of the school and older stages, sections of our community to clean.
The children certainly collected a lot of litter and did their bit in helping make Narooma a clean and tidy place to live.
Clean Up Australia Day success: Council
Volunteers were out in force on Clean Up Australia Day on Sunday cleaning up local streets, parks and waterways. Over 230 enthusiastic volunteers and 2,800 students collected 65 cubic metres of rubbish as part of this year’s campaign.
Many of the community groups that participate in Clean Up Australia Day every year reported that there was slightly less rubbish to pick up than in previous years. Some of the groups chose to expand their regular clean up area so they could collect more rubbish.
The most common items found at the 29 sites across Eurobodalla were cigarette butts, food wrappers and recyclable items such as paper, glass and plastic drink bottles.
Last Friday, 11 local schools hosted clean up sites and targeted areas that were important to their students, including beaches, sporting fields, streets near their schools, and school grounds.
Eurobodalla Shire Council supports the Clean Up Australia Day campaign every year and would like to thank all of the dedicated volunteers who got involved and the businesses and organisations that supported them.