Brimbank locals are being urged to don their finest rubber gloves and get ready to tackle some home-grown dirt on Clean Up Australia Day next month.
Sunshine naturopath Jodie Williams has set up a site at the Kororoit Creek footbridge, near Derby and Anderson roads, and is hoping others will join her for a litter patrol on March 1.
“There’s totally a need for it around there. We should all be proud of where we live and keeping it clean is part of that,” says Mrs Williams.
“We did an informal clean-up of the same area late last year, which started after a few of us said, when we walk around there we always end up picking up rubbish. It got us wondering, are there other closet rubbish collectors out there?” Mrs Williams says with a laugh.
There are 25 sites registered around Brimbank so far, and the clean-up begins at 9.30am.
Last year, about 572,400 volunteers cleaned up 15,708 tonnes of rubbish at more than 7000 sites across Australia.
Register your participation or suggest a site at www.cleanupaustraliaday.org.au/sunshine-facebook-group.
