Members of a new volunteer outfit are calling on their friends and neighbours to pull on gloves, pick up tongs and clean up their streets.
Love Our Street 3030 is encouraging residents to help make shopping strips litter-free and stop rubbish from polluting creeks, canals, beaches or the sea.
Organiser Lisa Field said Love Our Street 3030 was an extension of the work done by Beach Patrol and would meet on the fourth Sunday of every month to tidy up train stations, shopping centre carparks and retail strips.
“There’s loads of rubbish on the streets – most of it is single-use plastic from takeaway places, and cigarette butts,” she said.
“People are keen to do something in our community and there’s nothing easier than picking up a bit of rubbish. It’s a good way for the community to give back.”
Ms Field said that much like Beach Patrol groups, Love Our Street volunteers would count and weigh all rubbish collected at the end of each collection day, with the data to be used in future advocacy efforts.
The first clean-up has been scheduled for this Sunday, May 27, from 10.30am-noon, starting at the Wedge Street piazza and tidying up Watton Street, the Werribee River, Wyndham Park and the Werribee train station.
Volunteers have been asked to bring their own gloves, tongs and rubbish bags.
Details: Lisa, 0433 559 530 or go to facebook.com/LoveOurStreet3030/
