Chenxin blog header - aboard the Pelican

Make your donation to end plastic pollution in our Bay

Over 2.2 million litter items reach our Bay every day from our two urban rivers. 

That's more than 1,500 every minute.

Your donation will limit damage to marine life, human health, and the economy. 

Donations to the EcoCentre have allowed local leaders to lead community action against plastic pollution:

• Sam Perkins, Venturer leader for the Brighton Sea Scouts, conducts microplastic audits and monitors beach erosion with Scouts across Victoria, using methods from the Port Phillip Baykeeper.

• Chenxin Tu worked with the EcoCentre to empower Chinese-Australian communities, including those who don't speak English, to take positive environmental community action.

• Grade 6 Sustainability Leaders from Albert Park Primary School worked with EcoCentre teachers and scientists to determine locations for installing nesting tubes in the school grounds, and met with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to share their learnings on sustainability leadership.

Donate $50 for wildlife conservation - fund the planting of vital penguin habitat in St Kilda, to protect our local colony of more than 1,500 penguins from the effects of erosion. Donate $100 for citizen science - fund 1 hour of microplastic analysis, to track the volume and sources of plastic pollution in the Bay so we can advocate for policy change; Donate $500 for education and leadership - fund sustainability workshops for students and professional development workshops for teachers, delivered to over 7,600 students and teachers each year; or donate what you can - your funds, whether once-off or monthly, will go towards preventing plastic pollution in the Bay.

Make your donation to end plastic pollution in our Bay.

Make a donation button

Boon Wurrung Foundation Logo

The EcoCentre acknowledges the Yalukut Weelam clan of the Boon Wurrung language group, traditional owners of the land on which we are located. We pay respects to their Elders past and present, and extend that respect to other Aboriginal and elder members of our multicultural community.

We proudly work in partnership with Arweet Carolyn Briggs and the Boon Wurrung Foundation.