More than 196 kilograms of marine rubbish has been collected around Jervis Bay just in the last three months.
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Aircraft maintenance engineer Tom Jacobson, with his wife Danicia, a local teacher, who are collecting the rubbish used to do beach cleanups when they lived in North Queensland.
"When we moved down here it was such a good part of the country and we couldn't find rubbish and forgot about it," Mr Jacobson said.
"We started getting more into it and found the more remote and secluded spots were filled with rubbish.
"This area is so well known for being unspoiled and untouched."
They decided to start a group called Catching Paradise and are documenting the vast amounts of rubbish they're collecting.
"We get a lot of plastic bottles and random things like toothbrushes, combs, earbuds - plastic that lasts forever," he said.
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They've also found plenty of rubbish that's come from overseas.
"We've picked up cleaning products that are only sold in Thailand," Mr Jacobson said.
"The rubbish is so robust it survives the journey."
Tom said he encouraged residents to pick up rubbish anytime they saw it around coastal areas and to dispose of it properly.
"We'll go out every weekend and whenever we go out we find more and more of our favourite spots are washing up with rubbish," he said.
"You'll clean a beach one weekend and the next time it would be littered with rubbish."