A fresh approach to ciggie litter
Cigarette butts accounted for 37% of litter items removed from City of Port Phillip beaches on Clean Up Australia Day 2011 by the Port Phillip Clean Beaches Coalition. Apart from the fact that ciggie filters don’t biodegrade and are laced with a range of toxic substances, these little suckers are so small they scoot straight [...]
No butts about it!
The City of Port Phillip has taken a bold step to change the popular belief that Bay beaches are just dirty big ashtrays. They’re the first municipality on Port Phillip Bay to ban cigarette smoking and glass on beaches. The new regulations take effect on December 1, 2010. Cigarette butts were the most common litter [...]
Carmel Wallace: marine messenger
Artists like Carmel Wallace are rarer than a message in a bottle on the shoreline! Port Phillip EcoCentre was honoured to host Carmel as Artist-in-Residence in July 2008. In just 4 weeks she collected an extraordinary array of litter from beaches in the Bay and the Yarra Bank below Westgate Bridge; and assembled them into [...]
