Cleaning up our act

This week we celebrated Keep Australia Beautiful with some wonderful news that Australians really are cleaning up their act. The release of the National Litter Index (NLI) showed a drop in litter by both item (3.4 per cent) and volume (1.8 per cent) over the past year.

Since the start of the Index eight years ago, an overall 20 per cent reduction in items and 31 per cent reduction by volume have been achieved.

In an effort to keep the litter on a downward trend nationally, Keep Australia Beautiful has launched a new campaign asking Australians to write their wrongs (very punny, we know). By taking a light-hearted approach to discussing litter-related wrongdoings, participants have the chance to win $500 a week for five weeks.

If you've got some litter to spill, do it on the litteringiswrongtoo website rather than on the street, and you could find yourself cleaning up.