Heal Peel, a campaign run by the Youth on Leadership Programme and Peel-Harvey Catchment Council aims to reduce the amount of single use plastics in the Peel region.

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A number of factors led to the introduction of this campaign including the want to educate the youth on the damaging impacts of single use plastics.

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Heal Peel participant Thomas Fiebig said, “it is important to educate the younger people because it is their future they are growing up into”.

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“It would be a real shame to grow up into a world where there is so much rubbish around,” Mr Fiebig said.

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Heal Peel participant Emma Watson also thought it was important to educate the youth citing, “If we get the chance to help them at this age it could improve the future of Mandurah”.

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According to Murdoch School of Management and Governance professor Sarah Metcalf, the Peel- Harvey estuarine system is also the most at-risk estuary in Western Australia.

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The Make Place communications manager Skipper van Peer said, “we have some globally significant waterways in Mandurah so it is really important to protect them”.

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“Our whole city is built around our estuary and our ocean so without that and without looking after it Mandurah just would not be the same.

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“We would not be the unique, beautiful city that we are,” Miss van Peer said.

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For more information on Heal Peel or to join the campaign visit their Facebook page.