
September 23rd, 2009 saw the official launch of the North West Marine Debris Project with presentations at a number of schools in Broome, northwest Western Australia and a beach clean up conducted by students of St Mary's College.
Grade 6 students and teacher joined in for a beach clean up on Broome's Town Beach.
In just 30 minutes students had collected 3 bags of rubbish totalling 1548 individual pieces of rubbish! It was amazing how much rubbish was acutally found on the beach that actually looked quite clean before the clean up took place!