A four-person team retrieved more than 100 e-scooters and e-bikes, 30 road bikes, 40 shopping trolleys, more than a dozen chairs and tables, and some unexpected objects. | carawaters
Dredging the Yarra has removed 20,000 cubic metres of silt; enough too fill eight Olympic swimming pools.
and e-bikes, 30 road bikes, 40 shopping trolleys, more than a dozen chairs and tables, and some unexpected objects. “It is quite shocking how much we do find because we don’t do a big clean of the Yarra very often,” she said. “I didn’t really think there was going to be this much stuff, but we’re finding a lot, and it’s good that we’re getting it out.”
Kowalczyk said most items retrieved from the river went to landfill, but work was underway to return e-bikes and e-scooters to share scheme operators Lime and Neuron.
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