Clean Up Australia Day a success
Posted by MattE on 04 Mar 2007 at 02:09 pm | Tagged as: Media
March 4 is the annual Clean Up Australia Day and this year one million Australians donned boot, hats and gloves and well…cleaned up.
In its 18th year, the clean up includes park, roadsides, creeks and rivers, beaches everything from drink bottles to car wrecks are collected each year.
In a first, 110 of the 371 businesses taking part in Business Clean Up Day across the country last Wednesday registered their workplaces as clean up sites with thousands of staff collecting electronic or e-waste in a bid to recycle and re-use mobiles phones, old computers and printing equipment such as toner cartridges.
A schools cleanup day on Friday saw 500,000 students participating.
Organisers this year told Now Public that this year 7,000 sites were cleaned up and 8,000 tonnes of rubbish collected. Some of the more unusual finds include a manikins leg, half a boat and three wallets, containing a total of 30 credit cards.
This year almost 65,000 days equivalent will be donated in this massive campaign.
Tags: rubbish | Environment | Clean Up Australia | Australia
