Buoys, floats, nets and massive fishing ropes are among the 50,000 pieces of garbage collected from beaches in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area.
Two dozen environmentalists spent a fortnight combing beaches in the state’s rugged southwest for plastic flakes, rope fragments and other rubbish strewn along the shores.
Cleanup coordinator Matt Dell said the yearly clean-up covered new ground including toward Point Hibbs, where they found approximately 70 metres of black industrial fish feeding pipes.
“This involved the difficult task of getting these polluting pipes off the land and back onto the boats,” Dell said ahead of the expedition’s return to the Huon Valley on Feb. 25….