Clean Up Week

Clean Up Week is a great opportunity to get your friends, family, school, business or local community group together to participate in New Zealand’s largest clean up event and to make a positive and tangible impact in your local community.

Every year we mobilise thousands of Kiwis around the country to take part in New Zealand’s largest clean up event.

Clean Up Week is a great opportunity to get your friends, family, school, business, local community or youth group together and be part of New Zealand’s largest movement against litter.

In 2025, we had over volunteers take part in clean up events across Aotearoa. Volunteers collected a total of 30 tonnes of waste, the same weight as a Sperm Whale!

Thanks to all of the volunteers who got out there in their local communities and made a difference to the environment!

Clean Up Week is back this year, kicking off on 13 September, with World Clean Up Day on 19 September 2026. Registrations will open in July 2026.

Keep New Zealand Beautiful’s Clean Up Week wouldn’t be possible without the generosity of our sponsors.

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Name*

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Phone*

Email*

How would you best describe your clean up crew?*

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What type of Keep New Zealand Beautiful member are you?

Free kits are only available for individual/Household and Not-for-Profit Members.

What is the name of your school?*

What is your clean up crew/organisation's name?*

Is your event private or public?*

If you select ‘Public’ you will be asked after submitting this form to load your event details to the Keep New Zealand Beautiful website calendar, which will allow other people to RSVP and join your event.

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Private

Event date*

Whilst we are happy to support initiatives that fall outside of our Clean Up Week dates, please be aware that Clean Up Week rubbish can only be dropped off to council, EnviroWaste or Waste Management transfer stations between the 18th September to 2nd October 2026.

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End time*

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Event address*

Street address Suburb City Post code

Local council*

How many volunteers do you estimate will attend your event?*

Please enter a number greater than or equal to 0.

What is the estimated size of area your event will cover (sq m)?*

Are you happy for media to attend your event?*

Yes

Do you intend on using any of the participating Enviro NZ or Waste Management transfer stations listed below. Please select below or select 'No' if you are planning to dispose of your own littered waste or use a council transfer station.*

Please be aware that free disposal of rubbish is only applicable between 19 September 2025 – 19 October 2025. You may be required to show identification when you take your waste to the transfer station.If you intend to use a council waste disposal site please check the Clean Up Week Event Guide and contact the appropriate person directly.

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Please select which EnviroWaste or Waste Management transfer station you will use*

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Would you like to request any free gear to support you Clean Up Week Event?*

PLEASE NOTE: With Clean Up Week beginning Friday 15th September, we regret that we won’t have sufficient time to send clean up kits before your event starts. Free badges for participating schools are still available, but any orders made may not be received until after Clean Up Week. Contact us at cleanup@knzb.org.nz.

Yes

As part of your involvement in Clean Up Week would you like to contribute to our Citizen Science programmes?*

Our Citizen Science programmes are a great way to collaborate and contribute to the litter solution whilst gaining experience in data collection and analysis. If you select ‘yes’ an information email about our Citizen Science programmes will be emailed to you.

Yes

Would you like to receive the Keep New Zealand Beautiful monthly email newsletter?*

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How did you find out about Clean Up Week?*

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I agree that to the extent permissible by law, Keep New Zealand Beautiful (including all coordinators and volunteers), the sponsors and other parties associated with Clean Up Week, have no liability to me whatsoever for any direct or indirect loss, (including, but not limited to injury or death) sustained by me during or in any way related to my participation in Clean Up Week. .*

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Clean up kits

This year we encourage all participants in Clean Up Week to create their own clean up kits from reusable resources eg: buckets, gardening gloves, or reusable bags like those you may have received from previous Clean Up Weeks. With the help of the Mars Wrigley Foundation, free clean up kits will be available on request for schools, youth groups, KNZB branches, as well as individual/family and not-for-profit members who don’t have access to their own clean up materials (while stocks last). People can also purchase reusable clean up kit resources at a cost from our online shop. The purchase or request of Clean Up Kits must be made by 8 September 2023 to ensure that we are able to ship them out in time.

Would you like to request a free clean up kit?*

Yes

Would you like reusable bags?*

We will supply one reusable bag per three volunteers.

Yes

Please specify the number of reusable bags you would like*

Would you like reusable gloves?*

Yes

Please specify the number of reusable gloves you would like*

Would you like to request badges for your ECE or school?*

We are able to provide free Be a Tidy Kiwi badges to all schools and ECEs.

Yes

Address to send kit to*

Please note we can’t send to PO boxes.

Street address Suburb City Post code

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