Melbourne City Council has spent more than $1.1 million on graffiti removal this financial year. melbourne
In 2019, 4000 square metres of CBD graffiti was removed a month. Now it’s over 6500 square metres a month.The pandemic saw CBD businesses reduce waste volumes, but public litter bin volumes increased.Melbourne’s graffiti clean-up crews are contending with a 60 per cent increase in workload since the start of the pandemic as the CBD wakes up from lockdown and taggers daub their slogans on city walls.
“We’ve had a graffiti blitz where we’ve literally had teams in our Hoddle grid out every day. They’ve done something like six MCGs worth of cleaning of taggers, and they consistently come back, so we will continue that battle against vandals who are criminals undertaking that sort of activity in the city.”
Capp said the council had increased resources for street cleaning and graffiti removal and had a new push coming on litter.“We have more public rubbish bins than any other city in Australia, per capita, and yet we still have people that do the wrong thing,” she said. “We need to make sure that we continue to be vigilant on the emptying of those bins.”
“As someone who works in the city, I personally want every worker and visitor to return to a sparkling CBD,” she said. “Critical to that is making sure rapid response cleaning teams are responding rapidly.” In just over a month, the team has arrested 14 people allegedly involved in graffiti, including four people who were remanded as a result of their offending.
Steele said it was an outdated approach to believe cities could be tamed, and what was needed was to understand these activities better and in a more nuanced way.
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