TELEVISION personality and local resident Catriona Rowntree is heading up a new campaign to tackle dumped rubbish across Geelong.<\/p>\n
The Getway presenter will feature in a series of short videos, billboards and advertising.<\/p>\n
The first video was released on the City of Greater Geelong\u2019s Facebook page last week.<\/p>\n
The campaign\u2019s main message is that there is no excuse for dumping rubbish, especially when many items such as TVs, whitegoods, scrap metal, electrical items and excess household recycling can be dropped off for free at the city\u2019s Geelong and Drysdale Resource Recovery Centres.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe local community has had enough of picking up the litter of a lazy few,\u201d Rowntree said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just not fair, especially when our council offers so many ways to help you get rid of rubbish.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you love where you live, you not only have to care for it, but you have to stand up to lazy litterbugs. I grew up with the \u2018Do The Right Thing\u2019 campaign, so I cannot understand people who think nothing of dumping their leftovers for others to pick up after them. It\u2019s not only illegal to litter, it\u2019s unfair.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love where I live and I know we all want to live in a beautiful, safe, clean community. So it ticks me off when I see a lazy few dumping rubbish for others to clean up for them. It has to stop. It\u2019s time to, once again, do the right thing and keep Geelong gorgeous.\u201d<\/p>\n
She will promote the city\u2019s $20 old lounge suite pick up service as well as the November mattress recycling offer, where people can drop off their old mattress at the centres for $10, or have it picked up for $15.<\/p>\n
All of these items are then recycled, so as little as possible ends up as landfill.<\/p>\n
Rowntree will also urge people to report anyone seen dumping rubbish to the EPA\u2019s 24-hour hotline (1300 372 842), along with details such as a licence plate. The dumping of rubbish illegally is a criminal offence and significant fines apply.<\/p>\n
The city will be patrolling dumped rubbish hotspots over the next few months, with CCTV cameras being set up at a number of locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TELEVISION personality and local resident Catriona Rowntree is heading up a new campaign to tackle dumped rubbish across Geelong. The Getway presenter will feature in a series of short videos, billboards and advertising. The first video was released on the City of Greater Geelong\u2019s Facebook page last week. The campaign\u2019s main message is that there […]<\/p>\n