Cleaning up our roads

Concerned with the amount of litter adorning roadsides, a couple of locals have taken it upon themselves to help clear the rubbish and take pride in their surroundings.

Newman Road, between Wyreema and Drayton Connection Road is in much better shape now, thanks to the efforts of Esther Hume and Geoff Eldridge.

Using drone footage, they created a short video of their escapades which was uploaded to social media.

Along a 1.6 kilometre stretch, they collected 14.2 kilograms of rubbish that came in all sorts of shapes and sizes.

It included what you would expect, such as fast food wrappers, hub caps and drink cans and bottles, which amounted to $4 worth of 10 cent returns.

What they found which was less expected includes a pregnancy test, rope and an erectile dysfunction tablet.

Esther said they did not originally plan to make a video.

“The video was an afterthought,” she said.

“We saw how much litter was left on the side of the road and organised to pick it up.

“It was later, when were disappointed in how much we found, that we decided to make the video.”

Esther said it took a few hours to pick up the rubbish.

“We picked up the rubbish for a few hours until dark. The next morning after we had reflected on the quantity, we got out the drone and filmed some footage of the road,” she said.

“I later spent about two days learning how to use Final Cut Pro (video editing software) with the help from YouTube videos and managed to put it together.”

It addition to helping pick up rubbish, Esther’s friend Geoff used his skill flying drones to conduct filming.

“My friend Geoff is an amateur drone operator, he got the perfect drone footage for the film,” she said.

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