Litter traps
To protect waterways from litter, the City of Melbourne has installed litter traps throughout the city’s drainage system to help prevent litter entering the Yarra River and Port Phillip Bay. Litter traps include:
- large underground litter traps weighing several tonnes
- litter racks that trap litter behind a large metal grate
- release nets attached to the end of pipes.
Smaller traps are located at the end point of drains to catch litter before the stormwater runs into the Yarra River or other waterways.
There are more than 20 litter traps throughout the City of Melbourne which are checked and emptied regularly. We will continue to install and maintain litter traps to reduce litter and improve the quality of the water washing from our streets into the Yarra River, Moonee Ponds Creek, Maribyrnong River and Port Phillip Bay.