Australian City ‘Nets’ Impressive Results In Unique Clean-Up Program
The Australian city of Kwinana has found success in their 'net' program designed to trap garbage and debris from entering into waterways and public areas..
They are looking to install more down the road. Can actions like this be taken up by you and a few others in your community and presented to your town? Why not use this as a success case and see what can be done? We truly have power when we take initiative in our own homes. Plastic and garbage in our rivers, parks, and street sides are a pretty substantial problem. That’s why it’s impressive to see the early results of the City of Kwinana’s trial where they installed two new drainage nets to help catch garbage moving through waterways.
The nets were installed at two Henley Reserve locations earlier this year to help an effort to reduce garbage that would often drain from roadways and into public open spaces and reserves. During the short trial, over 370kg of debris consisting of food wrappers, other forms of garbage, plastic bottles, and tree leaves were trapped in the nets and cleaned up. All of this would have ended up in nature. And to think, it only cost the city $20,000 to design, manufacture install, and maintain the nets over the trial. Within a city budget, that’s very little, and considering the initial legwork is done, creating and installing more would be cheaper. Since the success of this trial, the city has identified three more locations that prove to be suitable drainage points where more nets can be installed.
The town’s mayor, Carol Adams, said the environmental initiative had received positive feedback from the Kwinana community as well as other eco-activist organizations. “The nets capture gross pollutants carried by stormwater from the local road network before those pollutants are discharged and contaminate the natural environment at the downstream end of the outlet area,” “This ensures that the habitat of the local wildlife is protected and minimises the risk of wildlife being caught in the nets. “Its success just goes to show how important it is for Government at all levels to really start to focus on environmental initiatives such as these and realise that small actions can have big impacts.” source. Climate change is a big subject today. After years of personal research, I have come to a couple of conclusions. Pollution and corporate driven mucking up of our environment due to deforestation, toxic waste dumping and so forth are much bigger issues than discussing C02.
The science around C02 is VERY divided, regardless of political agendas mainstream media is pushing. This is controversial, but the challenge is we’re focused so hard on the C02 issue so that we don’t discuss the greater pollution and environmental issues taking place. Small initiatives like this in communities are not only approachable but effective. Why not take action on a small scale? Then move onto the next project. This is truly the type of thing you can implement in your own community with some effort from a few citizens. In fact, I am going to begin looking at doing this in mine.
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