Keep Australia Beautiful Week

It’s come around again, this year the focus for Keep Australia Beautiful Week is marine litter. With the official theme being “SOS – Save our Seas”, they are raising awareness about the simple things that we can do in our daily lives to reduce our impact on the environment and encourage action.

Did you know?
● Approximately 10 million tonnes of litter end up in the world’s oceans and seas each year.
●It is estimated that 70{7a2eb471754f58cbf59baa93ee81dc7b74d186cb2e306188f39c85ba863dbab8} of marine litter is on the seabed, 15{7a2eb471754f58cbf59baa93ee81dc7b74d186cb2e306188f39c85ba863dbab8} is floating in the water column and 15{7a2eb471754f58cbf59baa93ee81dc7b74d186cb2e306188f39c85ba863dbab8} is what we find on our shores.
● Marine litter consists of a wide range of materials, including plastic, metal, wood, rubber, glass and paper. However, it is dominated by plastic which accounts for 80{7a2eb471754f58cbf59baa93ee81dc7b74d186cb2e306188f39c85ba863dbab8} of the items found on our beaches.