Keep NZ Beautiful Clean Up Week in Hāwea
Keep New Zealand Beautiful is once again asking Kiwis to 'Do the Right Thing' and come together to make a collective difference by getting involved in this year's Clean Up Week. The community pride initiative, run annually by Keep New Zealand Beautiful, inspires businesses, schools, community groups and individuals to actively participate in cleaning up their little part of Aotearoa. Clean Up Week is New Zealand's largest clean up event. Last year 57,936 volunteers collaboratively cleaned up an area equivalent to 4,935 rugby fields and collected a total of 561,979kg of litter.
As part of the week long event, Hāwea will be hosting a clean up event in Lake Hāwea, Hāwea Flat and John Creek on the 30th of October from 9am. This is a community event with anyone from the Hawea area welcome to join. If you haven't been involved in Clean Up Day before this is an awesome opportunity to volunteer in the Hāwea Community. It would be fantastic to see volunteers from all the areas.
We meet at the Lake Hāwea Community Centre on Myra Street in Lake Hāwea. You will be assigned a map with an area to clean up and high vis vests for the whole team. After you have completed your assigned area then come back to the Community Centre for morning tea!
This year, the Keep New Zealand Beautiful organisation is pushing for all participants to take a climate conscious approach to Clean Up Week by encouraging them to organise their own reusable and sustainable clean up kits using everyday items such as buckets and gardening gloves.
If you are unable to help on the day, you could help by providing a plate for morning tea for the Clean Up Volunteers.
Event details
Date/Time: 30th of October from 9am
Location: Meet at Lake Hāwea Community Centre
What to bring:
Gardening gloves and buckets or other containers/ bags that can be used to store rubbish during the clean up.
A trailer if you have one.
Wool fadges or garden waste bags you have (name them!)
