Clean Up Australia Day 2009
Written by nghiemdang, 23/01/2009
Chanh Dao's Clean Up Australia Day 2009 @ Ross Reserve & Noble Park Community Centre
Clean Up Australia - The Facts
- Australians are among the highest producers of waste, per person, in the world.
- An estimated 7 billion cigarette butts end up in Australian waterways, streets and parklands each year. (Anh Nghiep! J)
- 80 million plastic bags are dumped in Australia each year - creating a serious threat to our precious marine life.
- 33% of all items collected on Clean Up Australia Day 2007 were plastic - recycling one tonne of plastic saves enough energy to run a refrigerator for a month.
- Recyclable material makes up almost 80% of total household waste in Australia.
- To date, Clean Up Australia Day participants have collected over 200,000 tonnes of rubbish - that's 4.7 million household wheelie bins!
