Dim-witted fishing on Sawtell beach leads to entanglement of native bird

A small strip of coastal bush separates the beach from suburbia. Various wildlife still exists there. The Australian brush turkey (Alectura lathami) and wallabies try to survive in this small patch. Roaming dogs are allowed to chase the shorebirds and marsupials. At the main entry to the beach the native vegetation is eliminated to make way for more commerce and exotic weeds.

Image: News Of The Area, Coffs Coast 05.2026 and SUV fishing gear on the beach where people walk and oystercatchers dwell. (click to enlarge)
#birds #BrushTurkey #Sawtell #SawtellBeach #FishingHarm #fishing #harm #careless #plastic #entanglement #rubbish #beach #pets #weeds #biodiversity

Guess who is protecting and embezzling tax monies to pay for the world’s top ten rubbish producing, genocidal toxic shit holes?

‘Plastic use has increased significantly in the United States over the previous four decades, with at least 85% of municipal plastic waste disposed of in landfills. The United States produces over 42 million metric tonnes of plastic waste each year, which equates to approximately 130kg of rubbish for every American.’ https://www.greenmatch.co.uk/blog/10-countries-producing-most-plastic-waste

Why should any other Nation look up to and trust the governments of those that care nothing for any others wellbeing and flourishing? #Rubbish #RubbishNations #TaxPolluters #SaveEarth #EarthFirst #SubsidiseBiodegradableTech

I am always impressed by someone who puts his effort in to support his repairs to others carelessness and neglect.

It makes our regular bin bag a week collection of bottles, plastics and cans on our running routes look very weak. Not that we will stop.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/22/mission-clear-rotting-boats-poisoning-cornwall-creeks-fibreglass-pollution

#rubbish #waste #pollution #Cornwall #SteveGreen

It's rubbish night tonight, and my house is right next to a block of flats. Where my neighbours had put their bins, there was a congregation of half a dozen crows, cawing and flitting about. I couldn't see what they were after, because the bins I could see were the tall green-rubbish bins, and the only one which was partly open due to being over-full was full of branches, which would hardly be attractive to crows.

So I walked slowly up to them, and of course they all flew away, but I saw what they were after. Tucked behind the tall green-rubbish bins, where I had been unable to see it, was one of the shorter red-rubbish bins, and *it* was over-full too. And right at the very top of it, with a faint smell of meat (faint to a human nose, that is) was a full, squishy bag of wet pet food. I mean, the bag was also inside a plastic rubbish bag, but the plastic rubbish bag already had several rents torn in it. The pet food bag was much tougher, there were no holes in it... yet.

Seriously, what was that person *thinking*? They aren't even supposed to be putting food into the red bins any more, let alone stuffing the bin so full that the lid won't close properly, with pet food at the very *top*.

Rank stupidity.

I hope the crows get ALL the meat.

#Wildlife #Rubbish #BinNight

Please don't be prophetic, little graffitied dumpster.

#boom #photography #monochrome #dumpster #skip #rubbish #graffiti

The price of deregulation - when will Wasteminster ever learn that fixing the problem is always more expensive than stopping it happening in the first place? See flooding….

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/01/organised-waste-crime-dump-uk-environment

#Monbiot #Waste #Crime #NoAction #Rubbish #Tipping

"The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds."

Thomas Merton

#quoteoftheday #GreatestNeed #Clutter #Rubbish #AGoodCleaning