Inland Fisheries Corporate Clean up Day

Staff of the Inland Fisheries Service participated again this year in the annual Australia Day Corporate Clean Up Day, which was held on Tuesday 1 March, gathering over 100 large bags of rubbish.

Despite the hostile winter weather, they were not deterred from the job of picking up rubbish left lying around some of the State’s most spectacular fishing locations. These included Woods Lake, Arthurs Lake, Lake Echo, Dee Lagoon, Wayatinah Lagoon, Lake Catagunya, Repulse Dam and Cluny Lagoon. The question of why anyone would not respect the natural beauty of these areas and take their rubbish home with them is bewildering.

Four teams of up to four staff were deployed at eight different locations in the Central Highlands district. Each team was supplied with clean up equipment provided by Clean Up Australia organisation, such as bags, gloves and sharps containers. The Service used its own vehicles and trailers to collect and cart the rubbish.

Approximately 100 bags of rubbish were collected by the teams during the day, and were disposed primarily at the Central Highlands waste transfer station, made available by the Central Highlands Council.