This Sunday, March 3rd is Clean Up Australia Day, as the clean up continues even 30 years after the founding of the event by CUAD Chairman Ian Kiernan AO, who sadly passed away on 16 October 2018.
Ian believed that Clean Up belongs to the millions of volunteers who have taken to their streets, beaches, parks, bushland and waterways to remove the rubbish that is bothering them. One man’s vision created Clean Up Australia, the nation’s largest community mobilisation effort which is now firmly embedded in Australian and global culture.
More recently this has extended to the thousands who take actions such as saying NO to plastic.
Noosa Integrated Catchment Association (NICA) is all set for Clean Up Australia Day with 24 registered sites around the Noosa Biosphere where you can join local community groups and volunteers to get involved.
NICA Chair Bruce Hallett, hopes to continue attention focused on cleaning-up sites along the Noosa river, and ridding the river of rubbish.
“NICA and many others have been cleaning up the Noosa river, wetlands, and creeks, and helping to maintain and enhance the health and natural amenity of our waterways, for most of the past decade. The lower river, estuary and lakes are the central components of Noosa’s urban biosphere, and need more careful management and attention,” he said
Volunteer coordinator Cr Joe Jurisevic and NICA Manager Gil Studdock are calling on that strong sense of Noosa spirit to be reflected in volunteer numbers and already an array of community organisations have put up their hands.Plastic Free Noosa and Reef Check Australia are also teaming up to find out what exactly is hiding under our waters in Noosa – and pick it up.
The two groups will be taking to the ocean on 1 March to clean up the sea bed, and then reveal to the community exactly what dirty secrets are hiding under the waves.
Plastic Free Noosa coordinator Chad Buxton said they would be working in conjunction with Noosa Marina and alongside the Seabin Project, which will be installing and conducting a trial with an innovative Australian invention that will provide more data on waste in the waterways.
Plastic Free Noosa will team up with the Noosa Festival of Surfing in a beach cleanup on 3 March.
To find and register for a clean up activity visit www.cleanupaustraliaday.org.au
