CALL FOR “TAKE IN TAKE OUT” POLICY
It takes more than a rubbish bin to enjoy a visit to the La Perouse Headland. Randwick City Council and the National Parks and Wildlife Service provide parks, walking tracks, toilets, interpretation as well as a number of historic sites to visit. Bins cost a lot of money to install and maintain. Rubbish has to be collected and taken, unsorted, to the tip. The ratepayers of Randwick have to pay the tipping fees. Bins are also subject to vandalism. When they overflow the rubbish is blown around the headland and National Parks staff then have to clean up the mess. This takes them away from jobs such as track maintenance, fire hazard control, weed management and assisting visitors. There are many places around Australia and throughout the world where visitors are asked to take home the rubbish they bring in. Why not at La Perouse?
CLEAN UPS
The La Perouse Precinct Committee has organised Clean Up Australia Day on the headland since its inception.*
The La Perouse Headland Coastcare Alliance undertook a programme of cleanups and water quality testing on Little Congwong and Congwong beaches, as part of the 2007 Clean Beach Challenge. In the course of their work the following resources were sent to landfill:
Little Congwong – 360 lts mixed rubbish, 1 broken chair; Congwong – 120 lts mixed rubbish
and the following resources were recovered
Little Congwong – 310 lts of plastics/glass/aluminium; 1 very large and heavy ice boat ice box – removed by one of the teenage volunteers singlehandedly; 700lts wood; 200 lts bottles and broken glass; 1500 lts green waste; 1 plastic crate
Congwong 70lts plastics/aluminium/glass
(*except 2006)
Clean Beach Challenge: August – September 2007
