Local councils are calling on community groups and individuals around the region to join in the Australia-wide clean up on Sunday, March 1.

Clean Up Australia Day is the nation’s largest community-based mobilisation event. Last year more than 680,000 volunteers removed more than 15,000 ute-loads of rubbish from 6,901 locations across the country.

In Murrindindi Shire, Cr Bec Bowles said Council is calling on the community to come together and collect as much rubbish as possible before it causes any harm to the natural environment.

In the Whittlesea municipality, points include:
• Aurora Town Centre Park. 9am-10am. Saturday (Feb. 29). Meet under shelter near the playground at Aurora Town Centre Park.
• Laurimar Wetlands, Doreen. 10am-12 Noon. Sunday. Meet at the barbecue rotunda at the Laurimar Wetlands behind Woolworths, 95 Hazel Glen Drive, Doreen.
• Quarry Park, Mernda. 10am-2pm, Sunday.
Meet by the vehicle entrance to the park at 36 Eldorado Loop, Mernda
• Aurora Village – Forum Way Strip. 10am-12 Noon, Sunday. Meet outside Galada Community Centre towards the Aurora Village Shopping Centre, Forum Way, Epping
• Epping Recreation Reserve. 9am-10am, Sunday. Meet outside Epping Football clubrooms, Epping Recreation Reserve, 863 High Street, Epping.
• V.R. Michael Reserve, Epping. 8am-9am, Sunday. Meet at Epping McDonald Store, Cnr High Street & Childs Road, Epping.
• Tennyson Circuit, Mill Park. 10am-12 Noon, Sunday. Meet at the playground at Tennyson Park, Tennyson Circuit, Mill Park
• Redleap Reserve, Mill Park. 10am-12 Noon, Sunday. Meet at the playground and carpark next to the Redleap Avenue/Buckmaster Drive Roundabout.
• Mill Park Recreation Reserve. 10am-12 Noon, Sunday. Morang Drive, Mill Park.

Clean up Australia events to be held on Sunday, March 1, across the Murrindindi region include:
• Taggerty Clean Up – 9am – 12 Noon, meeting at the corner of Cathedral Lane and Park Road (Cathedral Landcare Group and Taggerty Community Progress Group)
• Strath Creek Clean Up – 9am – 12 Noon, meeting at Strath Creek Reserve (Strath Creek Landcare Group)
• Kinglake Clean Up – 10am – 12 Noon, meeting at Wallaby Springs Reserve entrance near 1840 Whittlesea-Yea Road (Upper Goulburn Landcare Network)
• Alexandra Clean Up – 9am – 11am, meeting at Rotary Park Information Centre (Maintongoon Landcare Group)