Clean Up Australia Day

Australia given thorough clean

"An urn with someone's ashes, packets of Viagra and a shed – these are things Australians either lost, threw away or left to be cleaned up today by thousands of volunteers.

"Each year the volunteers spend Clean Up Australia Day collecting other people's rubbish.

"And every year the dedicated volunteers find weird things. However, some of what was found this year must qualify as the strangest on record. Among them are items which may help police solve crimes.

"Queensland volunteers found an urn used to carry ashes after cremation ...

"More than 670,000 volunteers took part in the nationwide tidy up, collecting more than 8,450 tonnes of rubbish ...

"In [the State of New South Wales] more than 300,000 people turned out to help in the massive tidy up, which is actually run over three days, and collected about 3,607 tonnes of rubbish."
Source: Brisbane Courier-Mail

Clean Up the World
"CUW inspires communities around the world to clean up, fix up and conserve the environment. CUW weekend 2005 is held on 16-18 September."
Source: Clean Up Australia