Clean Up Success – Reduction in many items
Posted: March 16th, 2026 | Filed under: UncategorizedOur annual Clean up Australia Day event on Sunday 1 March was a resounding success.
77 local volunteers aged from 4-75 years including members of the Lane Cove Girls Guides, Lane Cove Scouts, Mayor Clr Merri Southwell, West Ward Councillors Katie Little and Rochelle Flood and Councillor Caleb Taylor joining forcing with local residents to clean up our local bushland and streets filling 30 bags with rubbish including 4 bags of recycling waste.
The great news is that there has been a huge decrease in plastic bags over the years, with only two bags collected from the bushland area this year down from over 100, 7 years ago. Banning plastic bags has made big difference.
There has also been a significant decrease in aluminium cans with only 50 cans collected this year, a reduction in over 300 from previous years. The Return and Earn scheme is working!
And there is a large reduction of disposable coffee cups, with only 12 collected, compared to around 100, 5 years ago.
The big problem this year was a large number of nitric oxide canisters, 20 of them were found by the Scouts under Epping Bridge, along with 35 spray cans. We hope this is not a sign of a larger problem in our community. We have reported the nitric oxide canister find to the police.
There is always an array of miscellaneous items including building products, scooter frames, metal, polystyrene, yoga mat pieces and even a garbage bin was retrieved by an industrious local resident.
The SBCRA Committee want to thank everyone who participated for their great community spirit and for helping us to keen our local environment clean.
We know many of you enjoyed the free BBQ as well!
