by walk2wineries » Wed 10 Feb, 2016 1:12 pm
agree although I have been known to pick up discarded nappies IF there is a plastic bag/chip packet handy to use as a glove! often is because oddly these items are often near rubbish bins at the end of the walk. I always try to bring a fairly strong bag (the 15c supermarket bags not the giveaways) when walking on the beach - litter is an obvious and immediate problem as I understand things like plastic bags/bottles can be mistaken for edible jellyfish and injure fish & dolphins, and twine or rope tangles birds and fish. Issue is what to do with it? I do understand that Parks & Wildlife often don't provide bins, saying - correctly - that if you can carry it in you can carry it out, we have other things to do with our limited budget. But the 2 filled bags I collected in a couple of hours on the Yurragir track weren't brought in by me! Perhaps the ranger's offices, or other places could be ready to accept Clean-up litter - its usually obvious that a single person on a day walk isn't going to have produced 30 litres of plastic that's beginning to fall apart. Thank you to the camp manager at Station Creek who accepted the rubbish - but had we not been with a ranger who knew him it could have been a problem. Lots of this crap comes from boaties, not walkers.