Volunteers collected and reported more than 67,000 litter items from around Townsville and Magnetic Island, from 2008 to 2017. The items here are regularly reported through the Tangaroa Blue Foundation’s Australian Marine Debris Initiative Database.Thankyou to those who lent a hand at any one of the clean up events, to those who pick up rubbish even when it isnt theirs, and to everyone striving to reduce their waste through daily steps. Good work to you all!This infographic was created by Reef Check Australia by Lolo TR with the following partners: National Landcare Programme, Townsville City Council, NQ Dry Tropics NRM, Tangaroa Blue, Conservation Volunteers Australia and Reef Check Australia.

In 2007 TBF launched the Far North Queensland Marine Debris Project (FNQMDP) with an aim of identifying the types of debris that is impacting the region, then to find ways of reducing those items from ending up in the ocean. Over 3,000 TBF volunteers have collected more than 500,000 items of rubbish from beaches around Australia and New Zealand since 2004. In its fifth year of the Australian Marine Debris Project, data on what is making up the debris and where it is coming from is helping to create strategies to reduce the amount of rubbish in local waters.