the annual "Mother of all Cleanups" litter clean up 10th May 2025
On Saturday, 10 May (Mothers' day weekend) nearly 1,000 of caring residents gave Mother Nature their gift by cleaning up her waterways from carelessly discarded rubbish.
From 5 groups in the inaugural event in 2015 the event has grown to in 2025, 60 community groups, businesses and schools groups collecting Tonnes of rubbish. This was then properly disposed of by City Care Ltd staff. There were as many as 350 bags of rubbish and 120 large items (which did not fit in bags) collected. Great result as these items will now not enter our waterways!
Sadly in addition to the litter hundreds of dog poo piles on the water edges were counted as well. Shame that some dog owners do not realize how disgusting this is to people trying to enjoy a walk along our waterways and how this adds to water pollution in waterways. Apart from litter being unsightly, many small littered items are mistaken for food and ingested by fish, birds, and once having floated into our oceans by whales, turtles and dolphins.
Our 'PickUp5' campaign supports this event by encouraging everyone to just pick up 5 littered items whenever you go outside for a walk of just check your gutter!
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Community groups have ‘adopted’ allocated stretches of our estuary and rivers to clean up.
Everyone can help just check for litter in front of your home and check the gutters when you put your red bin on the kerb. Pick it up before it enters the storm water system and from there into our waterways.
Think; “High Five, pick up Five”.
If we all picked up 5 items every time we go for a walk there would not be ANY litter!!!
