Tourists blamed for dirtying island with faeces

Tourists blamed for dirtying island with faeces

Excrement and rubbish mounts on Bruny Island; residents blame tourists.

Tasmania’s Bruny Island residents are fighting for more infrastructure after reporting an increase of rubbish and human excrement building up due to an increase in tourism.

According to an ABC report, the Island’s former mayor says current infrastructure is unable to maintin the increase in visitor numbers, and is urging State Government to provide funding to upgrade existing facilities.

The situation was highlighted after pictures of piles of faeces and toilet paper besides walking tracks and, in some cases, on a resident’s property, were circulated by residents.

“We need large rubbish skips and we also need more toilets,” Bruny Island resident Rosemary Sandford told the ABC, it was reported.

“Given that they will take time to construct by council, government or tourism operators in the meantime, we’ve got Easter coming, we need portaloos at all the tourism hubs.”

According to the report, main tourism hubs of Adventure Bay, Great Bay, The Neck and the Cape Bruny Lighthouse were in most need of urgent attention.

“The toilets at Adventure Bay cannot keep up with the volume of the tourists,” Sandford said.

“I think it’s a case of putting the tourism cart before the horse,” she said.

Former Kingborough mayor Graham Berry said  “at peak tourist times there’s a deficiency of facilities, and council is responsible for that as well as the State Government.”

“The levy or landing fee was first proposed about 10 years ago by the local Bruny community”

“It’s a no-brainer. The suggestion was that there be about a $5 additional fee that was built into the ferry fee, and that money would be quarantined and used to improve the facilities for tourists or for locals as well.”

According to Berry, per the ABC report, the suggestion was rejected “out of hand” by the tourism advisory council.

ImageCredit: ABC.net.au

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