Clean Up Australia: Clean Up Dumping program
23-November-2011
Mr BURGESS -- I would like to congratulate Clean Up Australia on its latest project, Clean Up Dumping. This program tackles the issue of illegal dumping on the Mornington Peninsula. On Saturday, 19 November, and Sunday, 20 November, Clean Up Australia, supported by the Yulgilbar Foundation and in partnership with the Mornington Peninsula Shire Council, brought the community together to clean up dumping at 11 predefined dumping hotspots across the Mornington Peninsula. Devilbend was the clean-up site in my electorate. The clean-up in this location was extremely well run by site organiser Jarrod Filosa from the shire council, the Devilbend Landcare Group and the Hastings branch of the State Emergency Service. My community is very grateful to everyone involved for the hard work that was put in to rid this wonderful area of unsightly rubbish. Clean Up Australia chairman, Ian Kiernan, AO, and the Yulgilbar Foundation chairman, Baillieu Myer, AC, are the leaders of the two organisations.