Clean Up Australia Day isn't just about picking up rubbish, it's also about teaching children about protecting the environment, says one Albury dad.
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Sam Giblin, his wife, Nonie, and their children, Fred, 6, and Margo, 4, were up early on Sunday to clean up near Bonnie Doon Park.
"We like the outdoors, we like to bird watch and get the children outside, and unfortunately there's heaps of rubbish out there," he said.
"There's eight billion people on the planet and if we all just drop our single-use plastics, it builds up, it doesn't rot away. It's always there."
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Mrs Giblin has taken part in Clean Up Australia Day for more than five years and hoped it taught her children to respect the environment.
Site supervisor Philip Palenkas said there wasn't a huge turn out, which was disappointing, but plenty of rubbish was still collected.
"We don't want litter getting into our storm water and disrupting out environment so it's important to get the community our and about cleaning up," he said.
"Ideally I wish there was no litter and we didn't have anything to pick up ."
Digital journalists with The Border Mail.
Digital journalists with The Border Mail.
