Keep New Zealand Beautiful

OTAKI BEACH CLEAN UP
2025-08-23 10:00 - 11:30 (Pacific/Auckland) | Marine Parade Otaki, Marine Parade, Otaki Beach, New Zealand
Hi Everyone, our next beach clean is on 23rd August at Otaki Beach. Meeting point is at the end of Marine Parade near the camping area. All ages welcome and it is a dog-friendly beach. Bags, grabbers and gloves provided. Hot drinks and biscuits provided at the end. Love to see you there and let’s Keep New Zealand Beautiful.

PETONE BEACH CLEANUP
2025-08-24 09:30 - 11:00 | Honiana Te Puni Reserve, The Espalande, Petone, New Zealand
Hi EveryoneDue to the large amount of litter washed up at Petone beach with this weeks Southerly gales, Petone Beach Clean Up Crew and Keep Hutt Valley Beautiful are holding a joint beach clean up .

DATE Sunday 24th AugustTIME 9:30am to 11amLOCATION The Western end of Petone Beach (Bunnings end) enter at Honiana Te Puni Reserve ,turn left into the dog walking carpark , beach clean up flags will clearly be seen as you enter the area.

bags and grabbers are supplied , please bring gardening gloves if you own some .all ages welcome and this is a dog friendly beach , so doggies most welcome .

A hot drink and biscuits will be supplied after the event.

Hopefully see you there and let’s make a difference

Conservation Week/Te Wiki o Te Taiao
2025-09-01 00:00 - 2025-09-07 23:59 | NEW ZEALAND WIDE, New Zealand
Get your community involved

If you’re already involved in a conservation project, Conservation Week is a great time to share what you’re doing with your community.

If you’re curious to know what it’s all about, round up some friends or the whānau and join an event near you. KNZB can help you run your own event or put you in touch with people from your area.

MATIATIA BEACH COMMUNITY CLEAN UP
2025-09-06 00:30 - 01:00 | Matiatia, Waiheke Island
Come join us for the first Keep Waiheke Island Beautiful Community Beach Clean Up!

Keep Waiheke Island Beautiful is hosting the first 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗕𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗖𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗨𝗽, inviting the community together to protect the places we love.

This clean up is an act of kaitiakitanga caring for our moana and whenua, and respecting the mana of these taonga for people, plants, and wildlife

Take this opportunity to deepen your connection with the island and Papatūānuku showing your love for Waiheke (and beyond)!

Snacks, bags & gloves will be provided, bring your whanau and friends

*Rain date is on the next day, 7th Sep

𝐾𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑊𝑎𝑖ℎ𝑒𝑘𝑒 𝐼𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝐾𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑁𝑒𝑤 𝑍𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐵𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑢𝑙, 𝑟𝑢𝑛 𝑏𝑦 𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑒𝑟𝑠

South Coast - Owhiro Bay to Breaker Bay
2025-09-13 09:30 - 13:00
Book this date. Details to follow

Let's do this Te Puke!
2025-09-15 08:00 - 2025-09-19 17:00
CALLING ALL TE PUKE LOCALS – LET’S TIDY UP OUR TOWN!

Building on the amazing mahi of Keep Te Puke Beautiful, we’re teaming up to bring you The Great Te Puke Tidy Up — alongside our Annual Spring Clean & Pizza Party!

The Great Te Puke Tidy Up

We’re inviting schools, kura, businesses, clubs, and community groups to roll up their sleeves for a week-long clean-up across Te Puke. Do a Litter Audit in your neighbourhood. Host your own clean-up session. Help make Te Puke shine. Then… let’s celebrate together! Spring Clean & Pizza Party Friday 19 September | 3–5pm

The Daily Cafe

Join our downtown litter sweep, then enjoy FREE pizza, prizes, and community spirit!

Let’s show our pride, protect our environment, and have a bit of fun while we’re at it!

Register your group now https://www.epictepuke.co.nz/…/1423831-register-your…

Share your clean-up photos with us using #GreatTePukeTidyUp & #TePukeSpringClean

Excellere College Cleanup Event
2025-09-18 09:15 - 14:30 | 39 Great North Road, Kamo,, 39 Great North Road, Kamo,, Whangarei, New Zealand

Marton Clean Up Week
2025-09-19 07:00 - 2025-09-25 20:00 | Marton Streets and School Grounds, 10 Dunsinane Place, Marton 4710, New Zealand

NEW ZEALAND CLEAN UP WEEK
2025-09-19 08:00 - 2025-09-25 17:00
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.

Check out our web site for more details:- Clean Up Week – Keep New Zealand Beautiful

WORLD CLEAN UP DAY
2025-09-20 00:00 - 23:59
Keep New Zealand Beautiful Clean Up Week incorporates World Cleanup Day 2025 which is scheduled for September 20, 2025. This global initiative aims to combat litter and promote community clean-up efforts, uniting millions of people across 180 countries to clean up the planet in one day. The event encourages individuals and organizations to participate in local clean-up activities and raise awareness about waste management issues. If you’re interested in hosting or participating, you can find more information on how to get involved: – info@knzb.org.nz

Masterton Clean
2025-09-20 02:30 - 16:10 | 69 South Belt, Masterton, New Zealand

MATATA CLEAN UP
2025-09-20 08:30 - 11:00 | Matata Rugby & Sports Club, Division Street, Matata,, 3194, New Zealand
Bringing our community together to clean up in and around our little piece of paradise. Tidying up around the lagoons, reserves, beachfront and picking up litter on the outskirts of town. Let’s make this a fun day shared by our community.

BETWEEN THE BRIDGES CLEANUP
2025-09-20 09:30 - 11:00
Join Keep Hutt Valley Beautiful and The Petone Beach Clean Up Crew for a riverbank clean up on bothsides of The Hutt river between the Waione and Ewen Bridges9.30am Saturday 20th SeptemberMeet under the Big Digital Billboard on Waione Street just before the bridge.Parking is available on East StreetBags , grabbers and gloves supplied. Wear sturdy footwear.All ages welcome and doggies most welcomeHot drink and biscuits will be supplied after the event

Buffalo Beach Reserve Cleanup
2025-09-20 09:30 - 12:00 | Buffalo Beach Reserve, Buffalo Beach Road, Whitianga 3150, New Zealand

Tahunanui Beach Clean Up 2025
2025-09-20 10:00 - 12:00 | Tahunanui Beach, Nelson Rocks Road, Tāhunanui Nelson, Nelson 7011 New Zealand Map It, Meeting location, On the main Tahunanui Beach, behind Beach Cafe and Bar
In September each year we hold an annual Beach Clean-Up event where local businesses and the community join in on our efforts to clean up Tāhunanui Beach, the inlet, the Back Beach and surroundings as part of New Zealand’s largest movement against litter during Clean Up Week.In 2024 around 200 people attended our event and collected 500 kilos of rubbish in just 3 hours.The Tāhuna Beach Holiday Park team is really proud of the legacy we’ve been creating for New Zealanders since 1926, creating fabulous holiday memories! We’re all custodians of our beautiful shoreline and we’re committed to keeping Tāhunanui Beach beautiful and enjoyable for future generations, our moana, wildlife and coastal economies. Organising annual beach clean-ups is one way we are trying to ensure that.

More info: tahuna.nz/beach-clean-up

Manutewhau Community Cleanup
2025-09-20 10:00 - 12:30 | Manutewhau Community Hub, 74b Oreil Aveune, West Harbour, New Zealand

KEEP TE PUKE BEAUTIFUL
2025-09-21 09:00 - 11:00 | Jubilee Park, Te Puke, New Zealand
Our aim is to keep our town litter free and to encourage better habits around rubbish and recycling. Join us for Keep New Zealand Clean Up Week.

All ages welcome. Bags and grabbers are supplied please bring gardening gloves if you own some

Timaru Suburban Lions Club
2025-09-21 10:00 - 11:00 | Marine Parade, Timaru, 7910, New Zealand

Keep Māngere East Beautiful
2025-09-21 10:00 - 11:30 | Orakau Rd, Mangere East, Auckland 2024,, Orakau Rd, Mangere East, , New Zealand, Auckland 2024, New Zealand
Māngere East Community Clean-Up – Let’s Keep NZ Beautiful!

Kia ora Māngere East whānau,

Join us in making a difference this Clean Up Week (19–25 September) as part of the nationwide movement led by Keep New Zealand Beautiful. Let’s come together to clear our streets of litter, restore pride in our neighbourhood, and show aroha for our whenua.

When: Saturday, 21 September 2025 Time: 10:00am Where: Meet at Orakau Road What to bring: Just your energy and community spirit — gear will be provided!

This is a whānau-friendly event, and we welcome volunteers of all ages. Please ensure tamariki are supervised at all times.

Whether you’re a local resident, student, or just someone who cares — all are welcome. Let’s roll up our sleeves, connect with one another, and make Māngere East shine.Together, we can keep Aotearoa beautiful — one street at a time.

Lakes and Streams BIG SPRING CLEAN PROJECT
2025-09-21 10:00 - 12:00
Keep New Zealand Beautiful is hosting our week long clean up event to get our country back to the way it should be BEAUTIFUL!!!

As we all know many hands make lite work so I’m calling on everyone in Rotorua to get involved the first of 2 clean up event we are organizing. This event will be focused around our lakes and streams here in Rotorua. If you’d like to get involved, please check out Facebook for more information.

LET’S GET ROTORUA BEAUTIFUL AGAIN SO WE CAN KEEP ROTORUA BEAUTIFUL

Stream Clean - St Lukes - Mount Albert
2025-09-21 10:00 - 12:00 | St Lukes – Mount Albert, 33 Fergusson Avenue, Auckland, New Zealand
Team Up 2 Clean Up – STREAM CLEAN SERIES! 🌊We’re taking T2C to the streams!We’re running a special Stream-focused edition of T2C, designed to raise awareness about getting to know our neighbourhood streams, and what we can all do to protect our local waterways.Come along for a clean-up with purpose — and leave with new knowledge about how your actions can reduce flood risk and build a more resilient community.Let’s team up to protect our streams, our homes, and our future. 💧💚Meet at 10 AM, 21 September, Sunday at 33 Fergusson Avenue, Sandringham, Auckland 1025.All cleaning tools will be provided.This stream clean up is special run by St Lukes Environmental Protection Society (STEPS) , Urban Ark and Earth Action Trust.This event is part of the Clean Up Week organised by Keep New Zealand Beautiful.This is a fantastic way to get out of that same-old-same-old routine, meet new people, exchange ideas to spark new ones, get light exercise and most of all make a difference to our community and environment.About the HostEarth Action Trust is a migrant-led charitable organisation since December 2013. Its focus is environmental awareness through waste reduction and elimination to achieve the zero waste vision of New Zealand by 2040.

Greenfingers
2025-09-21 10:00 - 16:00 | Te Whiti bridge, Masterton, New Zealand
Starting from Te Whiti bridge to the Gladstone school

Kawerau community cleanup and sausage sizzle
2025-09-21 13:00 - 16:00 | Maurie Kjar Aquatic Centre, Kawerau, New Zealand
Keep Kawerau Beautiful warmly invites everyone to join us for a community cleanup, with a sausage sizzle to follow at Maurie Kjar Aquatic Centre, proudly sponsored by the legends at Essity all part of Keep New Zealand Beautiful week, 19th – 25th September.

• Meet at 1pm sharp at the pools carpark to register, (you will see our team in our KKB hi-vis vests)You’ll be handed your gloves and bags, followed by a quick Health and Safety brief, then given your lucky number for the SPOT-PRIZES which will be drawn during the sausage sizzle

• Sausage Sizzle proudly sponsored by ESSITY and takes place from 2.30-3.30pm. This is for our litter picking volunteers who come to get amongst it with us that afternoon.

Spot prizes thanks to Essity, New World and Keep New Zealand Beautiful.. and not forgetting RESENE who supplied us with the yummy little boxes of m&ms

Look for our weekly updates between now and then leading up to the event.Ngā mihi nui

#keepnewzealandbeautifulweek#keepnewzealandbeautiful #kaitiaki #keepittidy

Pukehuia Park clean-up
2025-09-21 13:00 - 17:00 | Pukehuia Park, Horokiwi Rd West, Newlands, New Zealand
Join us in making a difference!Formerly Newlands Park, Pukehuia Park has been upgraded to include all of the below, which are all subject to Wellington wind’s habit of swirling and depositing rubbish!– Two new play areas, one for toddlers and younger children and another for older kids– An all-weather artificial surface for informal sports and a basketball half-court– A boardwalk with a small wetland area– A revamped skate area– Pump track, picnic and BBQ area– An expanded car park and improved entrance areaContact us at the email address below or our FB page: https://www.facebook.com/altrusaohariu

Porirua Harbourside Cleanup
2025-09-22 09:00 - 12:00 | Porirua Harbourside, Wineera Drive, Porirua, New Zealand
Help with nationwide clean up efforts by joining us at our Harbour Clean Up event on Monday 22 September, 9am-12pm.

We’ll be at the Harbour’s Edge (outside Kai Tahi). Come and burn off some school holiday energy with us!

As well as a chance to pick up litter, there will be:free sausage sizzleplantingplay itemsspot prizes.

Remember to bring your gumboots and lots of enthusiasm. Be part of Aotearoa’s largest movement against litter!

Te Herenga - Waka Victoria University of Wellington
2025-09-22 11:00 - 12:30 | Te Herenga – Waka Victoria University of Wellington, 139 Vivian Street, Wellington, New Zealand
Public clean up event

Bremner Bay Beach Clean-Up
2025-09-22 15:30 - 17:00 | Bremner Bay, Bremner Bay Aubrey Road, Wanaka, New Zealand
A community beach clean-up, with tea and coffee provided.Please bring your own water bottle, gloves and weather appropriate clothes.Meet at the Bremner Bay carpark – look out for the WAI flag

Whau River Cleanup
2025-09-24 11:00 - 13:00 | Olympic Park,, 36 Portage Road, Auckland, 1071, New Zealand

Greater Green Island Youth Action Group Cleanup
2025-09-24 13:00 - 16:00 | 1047 Brighton Road, 1047 Brighton Road, Dunedin, New Zealand

Open Valley Urban Ecosanctuary (VUE)/ The Valley Project
2025-09-25 10:00 - 12:00 | 262 North Road, North East Valley, Dunedin, 262 North Road, Dunedin, 9010, New Zealand
​Residents, visitors and volunteers are vital to see this vision through, by taking action in their own backyards and community spaces including: removing invasive weed species, growing and planting native plants, trapping and monitoring introduced mammalian predators, as well as taking part in Citizen Science, the online community and being involved at an organisational level as part of the steering group.
