Three women have given back to their community by removing roadside rubbish in Western Australia

Three women in regional Western Australia are being celebrated for giving back to their community by picking up roadside rubbish.

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00:00On the outskirts of Dongora, dirty deeds are being done dirt cheap.

00:07Oh, this looks prickly. Have you got your long stick with you?

00:10Three women teaming up to clean up.

00:13Just seeing how clean it is, that's the best part.

00:17How does that make you feel?

00:18Good. Makes me good. And it's good exercise.

00:22But it's hard work.

00:23I tell you, the road's not easy to do it

00:26because some of them are on an incline

00:31and sometimes you've got to be a four-legged animal.

00:35And the most common bits of rubbish?

00:37Coffee cups, water bottles and alcohol containers.

00:41But they have fun along the way.

00:49They've dubbed themselves the roadside rubbish relics

00:52but for the town of Dongora, they're absolute treasures.

00:55Recognised at the Tidy Town Awards.

00:58We were gobsmacked.

01:00You know, we just didn't realise that we'd be the winners.

01:04But the real winner is the environment.

01:07We figure between eight and ten tonnes we've picked up.

01:11There's probably, there's over 13,000 containers for change.

01:16And it's all a labour of love.

01:18I've been here for 30 years

01:20and I sort of wanted to say thank you to Dongora for having me here.

01:26And Dongora says thank you back.

01:29That's what we like to see.

01:32Well...