Clean Marine

Clean Marine is an education and awareness campaign targeting the recreational fishing and boating community in Western Australia.

The campaign aims to reduce litter and waste in and around marine and river environments by:

• Increasing awareness of the effects of litter on the environment - especially the harm caused to marine animals, oceans and rivers.
• Encouraging responsible litter disposal behaviour when people are fishing, boating or at the beach.

Here at Mills we understand how important it is to keep our oceans clean and we encourage our staff and those around us to do their part by picking up litter and support this great campaign. Just 1 hour every month could make a huge difference to our marine life.

Marine litter kills and injures our ocean's animals, many become entangled in fishing lines or nets and plastic bags that that don't biodegrade, instead break down into small particles, and are ingested by the animals which can lead to sickness or death.

Humans are also at risk and often boats are damaged by the floating debris - accidents that can be easily avoided.

We spent just 45 minutes collected two whole bags of rubbish today which included 2 flip flops, glass and plastic bottles, cans, plastic bags and sweets, all of which had the potential to damage our marine life.

Do your bit today and put litter in it's rightful place.

MC.