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Northern Beaches Clean Up Crew
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https://manlyobserver.com.au/a-sea-change-needed-to-clean-up-northern-beaches/ #northernbeachescleanupcrew #nbcuc #beachcleanup #loveManly  Did you know that by throwing your used batteries into your kerbside bins these not only contaminate our environment but can also cause rubbish truck & tip fires? Did you know that the insides of batteries are a valuable resource that are infinite and can be recycled?
A national recycling scheme ‘B-cycle’ is now in action to make it easier for Australians to dispose of their old batteries in a safe way with the introduction of recycling bins at your local Woolworths, Coles, Bunnings, Officeworks and ALDI stores! B-cycle estimates that Australians buy enough batteries every year to circle our planet 2.3 times This is an enormous amount of batteries in Australia going to waste So start collecting your used batteries in a seperate container at home, work, school and drop off to your local battery recycling bin. By making a little extra effort to recycle batteries the right way you are doing your bit for our planet For more information including drop off locations visit the B cycle website here https://bcycle.com.au/ #northernbeachescleanupcrew #recycle #batteryrecycling #thereisnoplanetb #recycling #batteries #nbcuc Hello everyone, the current state along our beaches is extremely sad. I spent three hours at South Curl Curl yesterday cleaning up with my friend Em and trying to rescue an entangled seagull (We're both also trained volunteers with Seabird and Turtle Rescue). The beach was pretty clean when we left yesterday but we were unsuccessful catching the seagull. If you see it, please call Australian Seabird and Turtle Rescue on 0438862676 and we'll try again. Northern Beaches Clean Up Crew has received many pictures of our polluted beaches and as much as we want to be able to be everywhere and clean up everywhere, it's not possible. Right now Collins Beach in Manly needs a lot of help as well as Queenscliff that has a massive Styrofoam problem. So, consider South Curl Curl currently "ticked off", except the entangled seagull and let's focus on other areas. If you and your friends want to help clean up this current mess, please send us a message with your location/pictures and meeting time and we'll share it with our followers to increase more awareness and hopefully get more people heading out to help. When you pick up Styrofoam, please make sure that the bag is tightly closed when you dispose of it, so those nasty little balls won't escape again. I also just also want to say a massive THANK YOU to everyone who helps cleaning up this mess. We're all in this together and we're all part of the crew. #northernbeachescleanupcrew #nbcuc #Styrofoam #beachcleanup #seagull #curlcurl #Queenscliff #Collinsbeach #loveManly #community #helloManly #beachescouncil  Small hallway floor made interesting. Wood from pallets planed twice, nailed in place, sanded, stained, sanded, stained again. Floor by Selga Apse. #northernbeachescleanupcrew #nbcuc #repurpose #floor #pallet #upcycle  Does this look like a bin? (We think a lot of people may need glasses to be able to see the real bins around). It is estimated Australians use 1 billion disposable coffee cups each year. That's approximately 2,700,000 paper coffee cups thrown out every day! Out of these it is estimated 50,000 disposable coffee cups (and their lids) find their way into landfill every 30mins! If that needless waste frustrates you like it does us, you can make a difference (and encourage others) simply by BYO coffee cup. Together we can all be part of the solution! . #northernbeachescleanupcrew #takeawaycoffee #plastic #plasticfree #takeaway #keepcup #bethechange  Does this look like a bin? (We think a lot of people may need glasses to be able to see the real bins around). #northernbeachescleanupcrew #masks #plastic #plasticfree #litter #tree #bethechange #nbcuc #doesthislooklikeabin  In coastal regions, storms are often powerful and accompanied by deluges of water that rush down hill into storm drains, ravines, streams and rivers, and ultimately to the sea. That water picks up much of the largely forgotten bottles, cans, and other litter that lies along curbs, under trees, in parks, and even in unsecured bins. It carries the debris into the waterways where it tangles in the bush alongside the stream bed or gets caught around rocks and bridge abutments, and eventually, forced by the currents, finds its way onto beaches and into marshes and other areas. Plastic does not break down and go away in the ocean—it simply disintegrates into smaller and smaller parts, disrupting feeding and reproductive systems of ever-smaller animals and plants in the sea. Preventing plastics and other pollution from reaching the ocean should be our priority. We can pick up rubbish every day for the rest of our lives - producers and people's habits and attitudes to single use plastic must change. If your bathroom sink is overflowing, you don’t reach for the mop to soak up the overflow, you turn off the tap. That's is what we must do in regards to single use plastic. Meanwhile, please help us out with cleaning up the beach or other local area where you live. #northernbeachescleanupcrew #nbcuc #plastic #beachcleanup  Microplastic pollution has been detected in human blood for the first time, with scientists finding the tiny particles in almost 80% of the people tested. The discovery shows the particles can travel around the body and may lodge in organs. The impact on health is as yet unknown. But researchers are concerned as microplastics cause damage to human cells in the laboratory and air pollution particles are already known to enter the body and cause millions of early deaths a yearThe scientists analysed blood samples from 22 anonymous donors, all healthy adults and found plastic particles in 17. Half the samples contained PET plastic, which is commonly used in drinks bottles, while a third contained polystyrene, used for packaging food and other products. A quarter of the blood samples contained polyethylene, from which plastic carrier bags are made. “Our study is the first indication that we have polymer particles in our blood – it’s a breakthrough result,” said Prof Dick Vethaak, an ecotoxicologist at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. “But we have to extend the research and increase the sample sizes, the number of polymers assessed, etc.” Further studies by a number of groups are already under way, he said. It is certainly reasonable to be concerned,” Vethaak told the Guardian. “The particles are there and are transported throughout the body.” He said previous work had shown that microplastics were 10 times higher in the faeces of babies compared with adults and that babies fed with plastic bottles are swallowing millions of microplastic particles a day. Read more here: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/environment-international #northernbeachescleanupcrew #nbcuc #plastic #microplastic #beachcleanup #plasticfree #health  And people call them paper cups... #northernbeachescleanupcrew #nbcuc #plastic #beachcleanup #coffee #takeaway #takeawaycoffee  "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." ~ Margaret Mead ~ #northernbeachescleanupcrew #nbcuc #beachcleanup #loveManly #friends #community #northernbeaches  This truly breaks our hearts. Queenscliff Surf Life Saving club that is located meters from the beach and in close proximity to the aquatic reserve "Cabbage Tree Bay", celebrated the "State Nipper Team dinner" with lots of balloons. Neighbouring, Manly Life Saving Club has a strict NO BALLOON POLICY. As stated on their website: "Due to MLSC’s close proximity to a sensitive marine environment, The Cabbage Tree Bay Aquatic Reserve, the Club has in place a no balloon policy. Manly LSC may refuse the return of bond/cleaning fees if parties are found to be using balloons within their function." Can we get Queenscliff Surf Lifesaving Club to implement the same policy? Actually can we get all Surf Lifesaving clubs in our council area to lead the way to a "no balloon policy"? If you would like to see our local surf lifesaving clubs to lead the way, please sign our petition here: https://www.change.org/BalloonPolicySLS Balloons are in the top three most harmful waste items to wildlife. Birds and turtles not only ingest balloons, they actively select them as food. This is because a burst balloon often resembles a jellyfish, the natural food sources of many marine species like turtles. Ingesting balloons, and the clips and strings attached to them, can cause intestinal blockages and results in a slow painful death through starvation. Marine animals don’t have the gastrointestinal pH levels to breakdown a balloon and for turtles, it may also cause floating syndrome. Trapped gases in the gut can cause a turtle to become buoyant, unable to dive for food—making them vulnerable to boat strikes and leading to starvation and severe dehydration. Wildlife, both terrestrial and marine, can also become entangled in balloon ribbons or strings, causing injury or death through drowning, suffocation, or an inability to feed and avoid predators. Even if balloons are disposed of "safely" they go to landfill where it may take up to 1,000 years to decompose, leaching potentially toxic substances into the soil and water. Why are Surf clubs using balloons to celebrate? Even if these balloons are biodegradable, it's greenwash. Natural latex may be biodegradable, but after adding chemicals, plasticizers and artificial dyes, how natural could it be? It may degrade after several years, but it’s surely not “biodegradable.” #northernbeachescleanupcrew #balloons #balloonsblow #plastic #plasticfree #beachcleanup #trashtag #litter #turtle #oceans #animals #animalrights #queenscliff #surflifesaving  Can we please be decent humans and follow the same basic rules we expect four year olds to understand? Plllllllease. Come on. Leave places better than how you found them. At the very least, don’t leave them worse than you found them. Respect retail workers more than this. Full offense, but nobody wants to run across your old takeaway latte while they’re shopping for clothes. They just don’t. You’re fully-formed adults. We promise, you can find a bin. I promise. You can do it. We believe in you. We're cheering you on. Do better. The world kinda needs us all to step up right now. It needs us to be kind, and compassionate and thoughtful. It needs some teamwork. It needs more care and less…well, less of this. Please. You can do it. #northernbeachescleanupcrew #litter #takeaway #takeawaycoffee #shopping #respect #coffee #keepcup #youcandoit  Someone created these faces from empty toilet tissue tubes! #northernbeachescleanupcrew #repurpose #toiletpaperroll #craft  We haven't fact checked this, but we love the idea no matter what. #northernbeachescleanupcrew #nbcuc #library #books  Don't throw out those old socks or pants - fix them instead. #northernbeachescleanupcrew #nbcuc #fixit #jeans  Want to know more about what you can do? Start change with the power you have: Full interview can be found here: Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2SQNCn9 Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2YCCejQ Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/googlewcwd Anchor: http://bit.ly/2KTPLfp "Northern Beaches Clean Up Crew" was founded to solve an immediate litter problem on the local beaches in Sydney. 5 years on, Malin from Kobie and the Crew are leading the campaign against single-use plastic in their communities and neighbourhoods. Thank you to @whatcanwedo.podcast for the interview. #northernbeachescleanupcrew #plastic #beachcleanup  The Shelly Beach (Cabbage Tree Bay) Wobbegong Shark with its head caught in a frisbee ring has been freed. Well done and many thanks to the Sea Life Sydney Aquarium crew! https://www.visitsealife.com/.../animal-rescue-centre/ #northernbeachescleanupcrew #nbcuc #shark #wobbegong #cabbagetreebay #plastic #plasticfree #beachcleanup #wildliferescue  Some of Sydney’s favourite harbour beaches suffer very high levels of plastic pollution, prompting concerns for the safety of swimmers in the area. The most poorly rated beaches included Manly Cove, with an average of 4051 microplastics per square metre, according to data from the Australian Microplastic Assessment Project. Whiting Beach at Mosman (792), Watsons Bay (781), Newport Beach (333) and Foreshore Beach (316) were rated as having high levels of microplastic waste. Dr Wilson, who is AUSMAP research director and an honorary senior research fellow at Macquarie University, said the data showed the widespread distribution of microplastics in waterways, potentially impacting the health of aquatic environments. “With plastics not breaking down but continuing to fragment over time, it means that a range of organisms, from plankton through to whales, may be potentially exposed to them”. Microplastics are less than five millimetres in size and can be items such as plastic resin pellets and microbeads from facial scrubs, or fragments of plastic products washed into gutters and then waterways. #northernbeachescleanupcrew #nbcuc #plastic #plasticfree #beachcleanup #microplastics #northernbeaches  An Australasian gannet (Morus serrator) drowned in a Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) radiosonde (i.e. weather balloon) on Brighton Beach (Victoria, Australia). Found entangled with another gannet that had not yet drowned, this one was literally acting as a dead weight, whilst the other struggled to survived. Pulled from the water, people called the wonderful Zoos Victoria Marine Response Unit (MRU) who came and collected both. Sadly, the other gannet also didn't survive. The BOM releases 56 such balloons each day to collect data, and hope to replace the material they make these from with more environmentally sustainable materials in 2022. Photo by: @doug_gimesy #animalwelfare #australia #conservationphotography #balloons #seabird #gannet #bird #plastic #australasiangannet #beachcleanup #northernbeachescleanupcrew #nbcuc  Say hello to Lionel's neighbour Ken. He joined Lionel for the morning low tide where they spotted spotted 3 bikes and one Franklin's trolley. They thought it would be hard to get it out but they won! #northernbeachescleanupcrew #nbcuc #Avalon #litter #rubbish #beachcleanup  Single use items are littered much more often than reusable ones. How often don't you see single use face masks and single use coffee cups? Compare it to how often you see reusable masks and coffee cups littered. Best is to use reusable as often as possible. Less litter that way. And less animals entangled in litter. #northernbeachescleanupcrew #nbcuc #plastic #plasticfree #beachcleanup #litter #rubbish #northernbeaches  This man is recycling old picnic coolers into shelters for stray cats for winter! How very cool is this?! Source: Reddit/mattbot106 #northernbeachescleanupcrew #repurpose #nbcuc  Encouraging sustainable festive seasons - free of plastic, balloons and single use decorations. FREE to borrow and bring back for Northern Beaches residents & events. Please message https://www.facebook.com/boomerangbuntingnorthernbeaches or call 0401 000 898 for more information and secure your bunting. They run on trust so no deposit required. How good is that! #northernbeachescleanupcrew #beachescouncil #boomerangbags #plasticfree #dontinflatetocelebrate #noballoons #nbcuc #party #greatidea  Great idea by David Irvine. #northernbeachescleanupcrew #nbcuc #repurpose #upcycle #upcycled #repurposed #greatidea #lightbulb  How good is https://www.arniesrecon.com/ Their January calendar is out - free pick up and recycling of electronics and appliances. If your exact area isn't listed book in anyway. They'll swing by! Bookings are essential at arniesrecon.com/ #northernbeachescleanupcrew #nbcuc #recycling #recycle  |
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