Deposit scheme to ease waste
Down, but hooked fisherman not out SHARP eyes at Rosebud Motor Boat Squadron helped save the life of a fisherman whose boat sank in rough seas last week. Member Mitch Delic saw the boat being swamped and raised the alarm with the Safety Beach Coast Guard and police before heading out himself, Wednesday 6 March. Gale-force winds had whipped up heavy seas causing the 4.5-metre fibreglass boat to overturn about 4pm. The fisherman, who was alone, was taken aboard by the coast guard crew – but not before his fishing line wrapped around his leg and the hook embedded itself in his calf. The Rosebud squadron’s commodore Michael Hibbert, said Mr Delic tied a buoy to the bow of the boat as a marker after the coast guard towed it closer to shore. Mr Hibbert said he planned to refloat the boat early Friday 8 March. The fisherman was given the all clear by paramedics at the Rosebud pier. Coast guard spokesman John Armsden said the boatie was “cold, wet and shaken”. He urged boaters to check on weather conditions before heading out.
Slow ahead: The Safety Beach Coast Guard tows the stricken boat back to calmer waters out from the Rosebud Motor Boat Squadron, above; the rescued fisherman was hooked by his own line, top left, while his boat was left to sink off Rosebud with a marker buoy attached. Pictures: Supplied
WITH no end in sight to the recycling crisis Mornington Peninsula Shire has backed the Municipal Association of Victoria’s plan for a “well-designed container deposit scheme”. This would go part way to preventing recyclable rubbish going to the tip. (“Recyclables go to landfill” The News 27/2/19). The shire’s executive manager infrastructure services Jessica Wingad said the move would “increase recycling rates and reduce litter by providing a financial incentive to consumers to return their cans and bottles”. Ms Wingad said councils were “stepping up to identify local solutions” in the row, which included more investment and greater regulation of the recycling industry. She said the shire supported the MAV’s Rescue Our Recycling Action Plan “setting out key actions that local, state and federal government should take to help solve our recycling crisis – but we can’t do that without support from the state government”. MAV president Coral Ross has been reported as saying the state’s recycling system was “broken” due to “unsustainable levels of waste generation and market failure”
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Southern Peninsula News
13 March 2019
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