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25.01.2022 Only 4 days away! Come and help! Add comments below to join.

24.01.2022 The Ocean Cleanup project is way ahead of schedule.

24.01.2022 Solo event. Same place, but downstream this time. And I came better prepared :D. 17kg, including 113 plastic drink bottles, 57 balls and a chair.

23.01.2022 Solo event. 59.1kg, including 33 glass and plastic bottles, 65 food wrappers, and two tyres.

22.01.2022 Solo event. 22kg. Despite being an estuary area, and important to the health of local fish, Point Henry is much neglected. This is a very small sample of what was dumped and washed up here.

22.01.2022 Hello BP3220ers! It seems that every time I send a letter to the BP crew, I have to apologise for something. The surf lifesaving season is still going strong, so my weekends are still jam-packed, and will be until Easter. Clean Up Australia Day However, Sunday 1 March is special - Clean Up Australia Day. I'll be saving people from drowning... in rubbish. There are registered clean-up sites all over Geelong:... * 5 along the Geelong Waterfront: Limeburners Point, Eastern Beach, Bob McGovan Walk, Rippleside and St Helens - all our regular spots. * 2 others in central Geelong, 3 in Geelong's south-east, 8 south of the Bawon, 6 in the north-west. * 11 sites around the Bellarine, and 5 sites in the Lara region. * Plus sites in Torquay, Pt Addis and Anglesea. Lots of beachy clean-up fun. Trust me. There's heaps of garbage to pick up. Get out there and make Geelong a bit cleaner. I will personally be at Hovell Creek in the morning, and probably Lara Grand Lakes in the afternoon. https://www.cleanupaustraliaday.org.au/join-a-clean-up Midweek Cleans If anyone's available for midweek cleans, let me know. Appbuster I've been thinking about this for a while, but haven't done anything about it yet. I'm looking currently at Tue 10 March. The premise is, when we do a clean-up, we log the rubbish collected on the Litter Stopper app. Its developed by Beach Patrol folks in Melbourne, so its theoretically tailored for our specific needs. One day, my family went for a nice long bushwalk, along which I (naturally) picked up rubbish. When I went to log the rubbish, I found I couldn't put the distance in (11500m), because the app only takes 4 digits for its numeric fields. Under almost all circumstances, that would be more than reasonable. However, on a BP event last year, I picked up over 1500 cigarette butts in under three hours. Could we get 10000 cigarette butts in a single day, and "bust the app"? I think it can be done, but I'd need help. If people come to the beachfront and pick up butts, then text me where they are, I'll come and get them. The rules: * It's BP3220, so only Corio Bay: End of Point Henry round to end of Point Lillias. * It has to be "beach": everything up to the nearest adjacent road. Examples: Limeburners point car park, but not Hearne Pde. Around Fisherman's pier, but not Transvaal park. * It has to be within a single day. * Just cigarette butts. I know there's lots of other stuff out there, but I think a focused thing might draw some specific media attention. Clearly, it's a work day, so most people could only help outside of work hours. However, if we do it in March, we still have a fair amount of light before and after work. Even half-an-hour would be a help. Interested? Think you can help? Let me know. #pickupyourgame #cleanupyouract

20.01.2022 Get on board in having a say how a container deposit scheme will run in Victoria. https://www.change.org/p/daniel-andrews-parliament-vic-gov-

20.01.2022 Queensland has launched an epic plastic reduction plan to kick off next year - in addition to banning single-use plastic bags in 2018! We've banned single-use ...plastic bags in Victoria - but we've got a long way to go. Join us to fix Victoria's waste crisis: https://greens.org.au/vic/waste

20.01.2022 We're testing out the new 10 people event rules. Please read the event details carefully! Hope to see 9 of you on the day :D

19.01.2022 This event is coming up soon. However, you need to book via email: [email protected]

19.01.2022 Final tally: 5361 Mission incomplete

19.01.2022 Solo day on the river. 11 kg, including 81 plastic drink bottles and 51 balls. I didn't go with the intent to clean, so there was only so much I could carry.

17.01.2022 40,000 littered bottles and cans removed

15.01.2022 As you can guess, all official Beach Patrol activities have been put on hold until we're permitted to gather in numbers again. However, that doesn't stop individuals from taking a bag out with them when they do personal exercise, and reducing the amount of street litter in their near neighbourhood (or wherever you may find yourself on your more limited journeys). Coronavirus will come and go. Plastic stays forever. Stay safe! Clean up!

13.01.2022 Lets not take our thoughts off the long term picture

10.01.2022 From the roads near the Boar Gully Camping Ground. All items found within National Park area.

09.01.2022 Two days to go! Rotary Bayside Geelong is doing a strip of Eastern Gardens down to the Eastern Beach Enclosure, and along the foreshore to the Poppykettle. I will be doing Eastern Gardens to Limeburner's Point and back along the beachfront to the Enclosure. Come help, or do your own patch.... https://www.facebook.com/events/340332093979246/

09.01.2022 Solo event. Within the lagoon and the mouth of Hovell Creek. 20kg, including 36 items of apparel, 125 plastic drink bottles, 89 cigarette butts and 117 straws.

07.01.2022 I hit up Eastern Gardens for the day. The morning saw me at Limeburners Point, where people partied the night before. I then met the local Rotary members, who were working their way towards Cunningham Pier along the foreshore. Thereafter, I did sections along the Upper Hearne Pde car park and several smaller car parks. At the point where I'd finished Round 1 and was contemplating Round 2, I got into a shouty match with some non-environmentally-minded people, and thought it be...st to retire for the day (before I escalated to fisticuffs). Weight: 82.3 kg Glass bottles: 205 Plastic bottles: 73 Cigarette butts: 800 (I really wanted to focus on big things) Alcans: 172 One lady who stopped to chat assumed I'd pulled it all out of the bins. She was shocked and saddened to learn that that wasn't the case at all. See more

06.01.2022 4501 @ Eastern Beach

05.01.2022 Apologies to everyone. I'm a surf lifesaver, so Dec and Jan are tough months for me to organise events. There is, however, a really spontaneous event happening tomorrow (Tue 3 Feb 2020). The Royal Geelong Yacht Club is doing a clean-up along Eastern Beach, starting at Limeburners Boat Ramp car park at 4:30, planning to walk back to RGYC by 5:30. If anyone's available, please come!

05.01.2022 Royal Geelong Yacht Club (and myself) at Limeburner's Point, cleaning up during the Festival of Sails. At the "pack up" point, there was 97 kg of garbage collected, although I heard more was collected as the RGYC members made their way back to the BBQ.

01.01.2022 Solo event. Paddling on the river near Balliang Sanctuary. The rain had washed a lot of stuff downstream. Nonetheless, there was still a boatload.