ROTARY Club of Portland are holding their third annual clean-up for Clean up Australia Day this Sunday, March 3.

THE club is inviting everyone young and older to help them clean up every nook and cranny of Nuns Beach, the Lee Breakwater and the foreshore.

Everyone is invited to come along at 10am to the Lee Breakwater parking area to sign up and assist the club.

Resources such as gloves, hessian bags and high visibility vests will be provided.

The clean-up event is registered through the non-for-profit environmental conservation organisation Clean up Australia, who have provided the hessian bags for items collected.

Since 1990, the organisation has sponsored the annual Clean Up Australia Day where communities band together to find and collect rubbish in their local area.

Portland Rotary Club’s Tammy Whitehead said at last year’s clean up was a great success, with high hopes for Sunday’s event.

“Last year, some people were walking past, and they were going off to the Fawthrop Lagoon, so they took some bags and picked up rubbish,” she said.

“It's interesting, it's kind of an educational thing.

“If we’re doing the Lee Breakwater, we can engage with a lot of the fisherman, and the ones on that day, they never ever drop any rubbish anywhere.

“And they will actually help you get some of the rubbish out of those rocks, which is great.”

Rotary will also hold a free barbeque at the breakwater car park area.

Anyone interested in joining a clean-up, should go to https://www.cleanup.org.au/ for information on other events in the region.

This Saturday, March 2, a Clean up Australia arts and crafts activity will be held at the Portland library, where all ages are invited to make art out of recycled materials.

Materials will be provided by the library, and it will be held 2pm to 4pm.

Ms Whitehead said she was looking forward to seeing the turnout for the beach clean-up and to see what they find.

“It will be interesting this year to see if there’s less cans and bottles because of the 10 cents recycling machine,” she said.

Rotary Club of Portland president Peter Taylor said he was looking to make a difference with their event.

“Basically, all we want to do is raise awareness, so that anybody can come, register and help,” he said.