ON April 29, Jade Donnelly will take to the stage to compete for the much coveted title of Waterford Rose ahead of this year’s Rose of Tralee competition.
Litter problem shown up by clean-up
On the clean team: Jade Donnelly with Imogen, Isla and Macie at Mount Martha beach.
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A GRAPHIC illustration of the amount of litter on beaches was highlighted when a Beach Patrol event at Mount Martha collected 151 kilograms in one hour.
“After many months of no organised clean ups due to COVID-19, it was fantastic to have about 100 volunteers come out for a morning of beach litter blitz, craft, a talk by Dolphin Research Institute and lots of great prizes from local businesses,” Waste Wise Mornington Peninsula’s Birte Molier said.
A feature of the event was a mini-container deposit scheme which prompted Boomerang Alliance to ask people to write to their MPs to push the case for a scheme that works because “we can’t do litter cleans forever.”