Sea Shepherd clean-up of kanamaluka/Tamar River marine debris in Launceston

Isobel Cootes
September 14 2020 - 8:30am
CLEAN UP: Volunteers Rhiannon Slaughter, Max Fitzsimmons, Jemma Jattke, Jackson Edmunds, Lauren Overton and Kiran Overton helped collect marine debris on the Tamar River shores on Sunday. Picture: Chloe Preston.
CLEAN UP: Volunteers Rhiannon Slaughter, Max Fitzsimmons, Jemma Jattke, Jackson Edmunds, Lauren Overton and Kiran Overton helped collect marine debris on the Tamar River shores on Sunday. Picture: Chloe Preston.

Microplastics, beer cans, soda bottles, cigarette butts and even a bike were found on the shores of the kanamaluka/Tamar River during a clean-up.

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Isobel Cootes

Isobel Cootes

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Sports reporter at The Canberra Times. A Novocastrian with a passion for football (or soccer as they call it in the capital) via The Examiner and The Port Lincoln Times.

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