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Burnett Mary Regional Group helps clean Wide Bay's Indigenous cultural sites after Qld floods

The Marine Debris Clean-up Project aims to restore the environment after flooding. (Supplied: Burnett Mary Regional Group)

Volunteers and rangers have cleared more than two tonnes of rubbish from the Wide Bay landscape, with a focus on cleaning up damaged Indigenous cultural sites, after floodwaters devastated the area in early 2022. 

Locals have collected all sorts of litter, including tyres, tree branches and plastic bottles from the Bundaberg, K'gari-Fraser Island, Gympie and Fraser Coast regions.

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