NICA President Bruce Hallett praised the 262 volunteers that signed up across the Noosa region to pick up around 2.5 tonnes of other people’s rubbish as part of Clean Up Australia Day on Sunday March 7th, organised once again by the Noosa Integrated Catchment Association (NICA). There were 20 sites were where community groups and volunteers searched the lengths and breadths of Noosa’s bushland, parklands, roadsides, beaches, creeks and rivers to Clean Up their patch of Noosa.
The feeling was that there was less rubbish than in previous years at some locations, but the overall volume and weight collected remained fairly consistent within the same areas from previous years. Plastic and cardboard food packaging was again prolific in the rubbish collected, cigarette butts, other hard plastic items and numerous other household items continue to be discarded rather than binned. Glass and plastic bottles were still abundant at some sites despite the introduction of the container deposit scheme in Qld.