{"id":30907,"date":"2014-10-12T22:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-12T20:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oneearth-oneocean.com\/2014\/10\/12\/left-to-pick-up-the-pieces\/"},"modified":"2014-10-12T22:00:44","modified_gmt":"2014-10-12T20:00:44","slug":"left-to-pick-up-the-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oneearth-oneocean.com\/en\/australia-en\/2014\/left-to-pick-up-the-pieces\/","title":{"rendered":"Left to pick up the pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelbgreen.com.au\/left-pick-up-pieces\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.michaelbgreen.com.au\/left-pick-up-pieces<\/a>\n\nLeft to pick up the pieces\nin Environment, The Age on 8 October 2014\n\nPlastic pollution in our waterways is getting worse fast. More and more\ncitizens are cleaning beaches, but can we stop litter at the source?\n\nNICKO Lunardi, from Newport, is wearing a black t-shirt with two skulls\non it. He is 27 years old, an electrician, and a drummer in two punk\nbands. He?s also the leader of a small group of volunteer beach cleaners\nin Melbourne?s west.\n\nIt?s Sunday morning and a dozen people have slipped through a gap in the\nfence to the Jawbone Reserve in Williamstown, the closest marine\nsanctuary to the CBD. Parks Victoria?s website describes it as an\n?unspoilt place? and a ?haven for coastal and marine life?.\n\nIt is full of trash. Lunardi picks up a fistful of sandy debris, shot\nthrough with countless plastic chunks, lumps and specks. ?What can we do\nwith that?? he asks.\n\nIn the next hour, the group fills 16 large bags with plastic waste:\nwrappers, bottles, straws, lighters, labels, lollipop sticks, thongs.\nPlus rope, parking meter tickets, innumerable unknowable broken bits,\nhalf a dozen syringes and a tyre.\n\nLunardi had been in the habit of cleaning up litter by himself. ?I felt\nweird telling people I picked up rubbish,? he says. ?But then I\nrealised: ?No, I think they?re weird not picking up rubbish?.?<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.michaelbgreen.com.au\/left-pick-up-pieces Left to pick up the pieces in Environment, The Age on 8 October 2014 Plastic pollution in our waterways is getting worse fast. More and more citizens are cleaning beaches, but can we stop litter at the source? NICKO Lunardi, from Newport, is wearing a black t-shirt with two skulls on it. He is 27 years old, an electrician, and a drummer in two punk bands. He?s also the leader of a small group of volunteer beach cleaners in Melbourne?s west. It?s Sunday morning and a dozen people have slipped through a gap in the fence to the Jawbone Reserve in Williamstown, the closest marine sanctuary to the CBD. Parks Victoria?s website describes it as an ?unspoilt place? and a ?haven for coastal and marine life?. It is full of trash. Lunardi picks up a fistful of sandy debris, shot through with countless plastic chunks, lumps and specks. ?What can we do with that?? he asks. In the next hour, the group fills 16 large bags with plastic waste: wrappers, bottles, straws, lighters, labels, lollipop sticks, thongs. Plus rope, parking meter tickets, innumerable unknowable broken bits, half a dozen syringes and a tyre. Lunardi had been in the habit of cleaning up litter by himself. ?I felt weird telling people I picked up rubbish,? he says. ?But then I realised: ?No, I think they?re weird not picking up rubbish?.?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3504,3467,3588,3488],"tags":[1585,2438],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Left to pick up the pieces - One Earth - One Ocean e. 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