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Welcome! Summer Community Clean-Up! Sun 12th Jan 2025, 1pm, meet at Pier St cafe, Portarlington

Hi humans join us for our Summer Break Community Clean-Up! Let's do this together. Every little bit matters, every bottle top, rubber-band, wet-one, cigarette butt, vape, lolly-wrapper, battery, fish hook - every single tiny piece of rubbish collected and disposed of safely MATTERS!

Everybody can do a clean up everyday - Clean Up Australia will provide bags, gloves, vests + more to support you.

Stay for as long as you like, do what you can, walking, rolling or celebrating with us is wonderful too!

Let's celebrate after at Pier St Cafe! BYO keep-cup!

Meet at Pier St Cafe, at 1pm, I will be there from 12.30pm.

Then we will head in various directions, decided on the day.

Afterwards, If anyone is has a vehicle and is available to help collect the full rubbish bags at various locations, and bring them back to the public toilets, near Pier St Cafe -please contact me, on unravelwithrach@gmail.com

The CoGG will be collecting the rubbish bags from Pier St Public toilets.

BYO friends, family, water-bottle, long-pants, long-sleeves, sturdy-enclosed shoes & gloves!

I will have some gloves & bags available, early-bird catches the gloves!

Feel free to share.

Other groups are welcome to join us!

The more the merrier!

Everyday is clean up day!

Date and time

Sunday 12th January 2025
1:00pm - 3:00pm

Occurs: Quarterly

Location

Pier Street Cafe, Portarlington 3223

Landmark: Pier St Cafe

Council: City of Greater Geelong

Site Type: Beach/Coastal

Event Info

Meeting Point: Rachel will be at an outdoor table at Pier St Cafe, once you sign in and get the safety brief, you can head off in groups in various directions. Please suggest areas that need attention. We usually aim to do the car park, the pier, the main beach and beach from the pier to the breakwater, the breakwater and the oval. The drains and gutters usually need a lot of attention.

Site Supervisor: Rachel Antonik

Contact Supervisor

My Achievements

My Updates

Everyday is clean up day, every tiny piece MATTERS! YOU MATTER!

Wednesday 14th Feb

Hi humans join me caring for Country. I coordinate regular events, I welcome everybody. Let's do this together!

1976 and 2006. Yuk, your gonna pick up other peoples rubbish!

Tuesday 13th Aug

When I was around 8yrs old, I was very upset by the rubbish on the street. I told my parents, they handed me a rubbish bag... 'well pick it up then' my mother said.

So off I went, very quickly my bag was overflowing and there was so much more rubbish to collect.

Somewhat overwhelmed but also feeling a small sense of accomplishment, I returned home.

I felt the job was too big for little me.

Flash forward to 1990, two wonderful people had created Clean Up Australia - Kim McKay AO and Ian Kiernan, AO !

I organised my kids and the neighbourhood kids to clean up our street and nearest playground.... this was my first official Clean Up Australia event, I was hooked!

2020 Oct spOOky community clean up

Tuesday 13th Aug

Halloween is delightful and destructive, it's wonderful that it creates a sense of community, and that it brings families out on the street, and encourages humans to have fun together! Unfortunately one of the downsides is the pollution created in the craze. This was the motivation behind my spOOky clean up! Next Halloween please tread lightly on Mother Earth, and take all your rubbish home.

2020 Nov. Clean up, bags filled with dog poo!

Tuesday 13th Aug

gloves, masks, mini-hand sanitizer plastic bottles, wet-wipes...

our poor earth...

during the pandemic years I did regular clean-ups

it gave me hope

2021 March Kids need ALERT adult supervision during clean ups

Tuesday 13th Aug

Often it is the child that asks the adult, can we do a clean up?

Yay for children they know what our earth needs!

Make sure you always have protective clothing on for clean ups! Gloves, long pants, long sleeves, a hat, fully enclosed non-slip shoes that can get mucky.

2022 August. clean up, woweeeeeeee what a MESS!

Tuesday 13th Aug

Often community members bring areas of concern to my attention, so we focus our clean up to these areas. This was an area between a 7 Eleven and a high school, the rubbish was NEXT LEVEL!

2023 March. THANK YOU EVERYONE!

Tuesday 13th Aug

Unfortunately I was unable to participate in person, sometimes you just can't be everywhere!

I am so grateful to all humans all over Australia and the world who work to care for Mother Earth.

Check out the photo... someone left their enormous mirror behind.... WTF!

2020 Dec. Boxing Day Clean Up

Tuesday 13th Aug

THANK YOU PATRICK!!!!!!

Please consider the impact on Mother Earth and all her creatures when purchasing Xmas Gifts and preparing for Xmas and NYE.... you can always try something different... traditions can change.... tread gently, take care...

2024 March. 3 events in Portarlington!

Tuesday 13th Aug

Below is the info I posted everywhere! I joined Sue and the Friends of Ramblers Road, what a great team!

CLEAN UP AUSTRALIA DAY! Sun 3rd March - GET YA GLOVES ON! great fun for teens, tots, mobility scooters, those in wheelchairs, everyone can do - what they can do! read on for clean up events happening in portarlington - yay! BYO gloves, enclosed shoes, rubbish bags, waterbottle, slip, slop, slap, and seek shade.

to find a clean up event in your region, head here; https://register.cleanup.org.au/join-a-clean-up

in portarlington there are 3 events on the big day, and 1 later in the year!

The Bellarine Greens are organising an emu parade to clean up the Portarlington foreshore and we invite the community to join us.

Sunday 03rd March 10:00, Portarlington Pier

Meeting Point: We will meet at the Portarlington Pier

Site Supervisor: John Bowman

more info: https://register.cleanup.org.au/fundraisers/johnbowman/portarlington-beach

woofers & walkers; Sunday 03rd March 10:00, Cnr The Esplanade and Fairfax St Portarlington

Meeting Point: Grassy area above the Fairfax St boat ramp

Site Supervisor: Joan Kelly. More info; https://register.cleanup.org.au/fundraisers/joankelly/woofers-and-walkers--portarlington

Friends of Ramblers Road host this event. We will meet between number 38 and 40 Ramblers road at the carpark at 10am. A BBQ will be held after (Gold coin donation)

Sunday 03rd March 10:00,

Meeting Point: Meet between numbers 38 and 40 Ramblers Road at the carpark.

Site Supervisor: Sue Cairns, more info; https://register.cleanup.org.au/fundraisers/suecairns/ramblers-road-foreshore-44163

AMAZING WORK EVERYONE!