Greenpeace Australia Pacific

Plastic trash is a problem all over the world. Many bottles and cans do get recycled, but billions don’t, so they end up in landfill, on our beaches, in our oceans, parks and other public spaces.

June Norman might look like your average grandma. But on 1 June 2013 she started an epic 1186 kilometre journey on foot from Cairns to Gladstone to protect the Great Barrier Reef.