Kids on the clean up

OVER 60 children from Torquay and Anglesea kindergartens rolled up their sleeves and collected bags of rubbish on Clean Up Australia Day early last month.

The kids participated in their own version of the national event – which is supported by Surf Coast Shire Council annually – filling two bags of items at Torquay Kindergarten’s bush kinder site at Bellbrae, which included an old football, bottles, chicken feed bags, paper, plastic and fabric.

Children from Anglesea Kindergarten gathered litter outside the kinder amongst the local community.

Co-ordinators of the clean-up said collecting rubbish was an innovative way for the environmental leaders of tomorrow to see firsthand the negative effects human carelessness can have on the environment.