NEWS

For years, three Rye locals argued that mechanically raking beaches to make them look tidy might actually be doing more environmental harm than the litter it was clearing. Mornington Peninsula Shire has now agreed with them, on paper. Hand in Hand for the Coast, led by Josie Jones, Melanie Bird and Cara Hull, started as straightforward litter prevention and grew into a decade-plus body of citizen science: documenting how mechanical beach raking fragments hard plastics into sm