Sunday March 2 is Clean Up Australia Day. Among the 8000 tonnes of rubbish collected by over a million volunteers last year were: ciggy butts, a parking meter, drinks containers and a mannequin’s leg. Visit the online registry and locate a local clean-up site where you can muck-in. Someone will be there to issue you with gloves and rubbish bags. You can also nominate a new site, and yourself as coordinator of it. You’ll also indirectly contribute to the national Rubbish Report which analyses our littering and recycling habits. For years plastic has been the most common source of rubbish, while wood, appropriately, won 2007's wooden spoon, pipping the previous winner, rubber, as the smallest source of rubbish.