1st/14th Brighton Sea Scouts: 2022 Finalist – Waste and litter reduction
Last updated: 14 August 2023
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The Brighton Sea Scouts are training and empowering their members to monitor for microplastics across Port Phillip Bay catchments. This 2-year research project set out to monitor and help combat the serious threat of microplastic pollution to aquatic wildlife by collecting and recording data and developing a litter database.
More than 500 scouts and leaders were involved in litter audits, the results of which are now informing council litter management strategies, as well as state government policy action.