5800 make Clean Up day a huge success
Well over 5,800 volunteers at 103 sites helped make Moreton Bay Region’s first Clean Up Australia Day campaign a massive success. Old furniture, bike frames, drums, car registration plates, 45 shopping trolleys, a lawn mower grass catcher, a frypan, bumper bars, and a vacuum cleaner were among the larger items collected.
Mayor Allan Sutherland said he was overwhelmed by the community’s response to the campaign.
“This was our first clean up as a region amalgamating Caboolture, Pine Rivers and Redcliffe districts and we had more than five times the number of volunteers who took part in the three districts last year,” Cr Sutherland said.
This year well over 5,800 volunteers took part at 103 registered sites compared with last year’s efforts where 1,100 volunteers cleaned up 69 sites.
Many groups took advantage of the fine weather and the cooler morning hours to help clean up public spaces, reserves, waterways and bushland throughout the region.
Moreton Bay Regional Council helped members of the community with their clean up efforts by providing assistance to registered site coordinators.
In one of the more unusual clean up efforts 50 divers took to the water off Redcliffe Jetty to remove trolleys, bicycles and other items.
Mayor Allan Sutherland said he was overwhelmed by the community’s response to the campaign.
“This was our first clean up as a region amalgamating Caboolture, Pine Rivers and Redcliffe districts and we had more than five times the number of volunteers who took part in the three districts last year,” Cr Sutherland said.
This year well over 5,800 volunteers took part at 103 registered sites compared with last year’s efforts where 1,100 volunteers cleaned up 69 sites.
Many groups took advantage of the fine weather and the cooler morning hours to help clean up public spaces, reserves, waterways and bushland throughout the region.
Moreton Bay Regional Council helped members of the community with their clean up efforts by providing assistance to registered site coordinators.
In one of the more unusual clean up efforts 50 divers took to the water off Redcliffe Jetty to remove trolleys, bicycles and other items.
