00:00Just a few hundred metres from Eaglehawk-Neilborough Road, hundreds of kilograms of rubbish have
00:06been dumped in the whipsticks.
00:08Tires, nappies and old Christmas trees litter the once pristine bush surrounding Bendigo.
00:15Dave Dudley from Cleanup Victoria says Bendigo's mining history has left plenty of ditches
00:20to hide unwanted rubbish.
00:22Ah, well it gives people lots of places to dump their stuff, doesn't it?
00:26This is an old pit of some sort, an old open cut by the looks of it, I don't know what's
00:31down further, but there's that many places around here people can just back a trailer
00:36up to or a car and they just throw it over, over the edge, out of sight, out of mind until
00:41someone like me comes along and finds it.
00:46Every time I see someone out in the bush I'll talk to them and say, hey listen, are you
00:51sick of this?
00:52Do you want to do something about it?
00:54They walk on by and say, oh that's disgusting, someone should do something about this, well
00:59be that someone, don't just talk about it or look at it and find it appalling, action
01:04it and make a difference.
01:06A kid's beanie, another beanie.
01:11We're supposed to be the pinnacle of the species on this planet and look at the way we're treating
01:16it.
01:17If we can't sort this now with all our technology that we use to make this stuff, if we can't
01:20sort it to clean it up, we've got real drama.
01:23Whether you're bagging a bag of litter or sending a snap-send solving to the council
01:27because you've found something, everything's making, every little bit can make a difference.
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