On Saturday October 3, ReefClean’s annual Great Barrier Reef Clean-up kicked off in Townsville and Mackay. More events are planned throughout the rest of October from Bundaberg to the Torres Strait.
The free event, now in its second year, mobilises communities around the reef to clean-up hundreds of kilometres of coastline. The Australian Marine Debris Initiative Database showed single-use plastic litter is the main threat to the Great Barrier Reef and surrounding waterways.
Tangaroa Blue CEO Heidi Tait says volunteers recovered 25 tonnes of debris across all events last year and this year they plan on recovering even more.