SURVEYED SITES

The 'Returned Valid Surveys by State' chart shows the number of valid Rubbish Report surveys received from each state, including both urban and rural areas. This year all states returned more surveys, with a total of 738 sites surveyed, compared to last year's 484 sites.

In line with previous years and reflecting increased campaign participation levels, NSW returned the most surveys with 265 valid returned surveys. Victoria followed in second place with 144 surveys and then Queensland with 122 surveys. This result is consistent with previous years.

Rural sites surveyed accounted for 44% of returned surveys, with urban sites accounting for 56%. This marks a turnaround from the trends of 2003 and 2004 when rural areas returnined a larger proportion of the surveys.

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The 'Returned Valid Surveys by Site' chart illustrates the number of valid Rubbish Report surveys returned by site category. The chart is further broken into both urban and rural areas for each site.

School grounds provided the highest number of returned surveys, with 183 returned surveys. These sites were closely followed by public bushland sites with 182 returned surveys.

Roadways were in third place accounting for 16% of all valid surveys. They were followed by beach/coastal sites (14%), shops/malls (12%), rivers/creeks (11%), outdoor transport (7%), other (3%) and parks/waterfronts (2%).

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