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.

Registrations are open for Clean Up Week 2023. Get your friends, family, school, business, local community or youth group together and be part of New Zealand’s largest movement against litter.

Clean Up Week 2023 will run from 16-22 September, kicking off on World Clean Up Day!

In 2022, we had a record breaking 67,400 volunteers take part, collecting a total of 655 tonnes of waste over an area equivalent to 5,751 rugby fields. Register now and let’s see if we can break the record again this year.

Free waste disposal of the litter you collect
By registering for Clean Up Week you’ll gain access to FREE waste disposal of your litter at selected refuse transfer stations across the country thanks to Waste Management, Enviro NZ and some local councils.

Free Clean Up Week kits and badges
All Clean Up Week participants are encouraged to take a climate conscious approach by creating their own reusable and sustainable clean up kits using everyday items such as buckets and gardening gloves. However, with the help of the Mars Wrigley Foundation, FREE reusable clean up kits will be available on request for some groups (including ECEs, schools, youth groups, Keep New Zealand Beautiful’s Community and Educational branches, Individual/Family and Not-for-Profit members) who don’t have access to their own clean up materials and who haven’t requested a kit before.

To encourage our young Tidy Kiwis, we also have limited edition, collectable badges available for ECEs, school groups and Educational Branches on request.

PLEASE NOTE ALL CLEAN UP WEEK GEAR INCLUDING BADGES, REUSABLE GLOVES AND REUSABLE BAGS ARE NOW OUT OF STOCK. Please consider creating your own clean up kit using items such as gardening gloves, buckets or tubs.

After your event, there’s a chance to win one of two Ultimate Ears BOOM 3 speakers by submitting your five favourite clean up event photos and an Evaluation Form before Friday 6 October 2023.

Registrations are open until 15 October 2023. Check out our FAQ page for more information.

Public Clean Up Week events

If you’re interested in taking part in Clean Up Week but unable to organise your own event there’s plenty of public events running throughout the country that you can join. Simply RSVP online to let the event organisers know. Find a public Clean Up Week event here.

Register for Clean Up Week 2023

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.
- Public
- Private
Event date*
Whilst we are happy to support initiatives that fall outside of our Clean Up Week dates, please be aware that rubbish can only be dropped off to council, EnviroWaste or Waste Management transfer stations between 17 September 2022-15 October 2022.
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Start time*

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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
- No
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 16 September 2023 - 16 October 2023. 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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- No
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
- No
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.
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- No
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?*
Please specify...
As part of registering my event, I understand that I am required to submit an evaluation form for my clean up event*
There will be a prize incentive for the return of evaluation forms and photographs of your event received before 6 October 2023.
- Yes
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. By requesting a clean up kit as a school or ECE, I agree to become a Keep New Zealand Beautiful Education Branch if my place of learning is not currently one. I understand that becoming an Educational Branch is completely free and that I will receive a membership pack including a handbook to explain all of the benefits, programmes available to me and my commitment as a branch.*
- Yes
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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
- No
Would you like reusable bags?*
We will supply one reusable bag per three volunteers.
- Yes
- No
Please specify the number of reusable bags you would like*
Would you like reusable gloves?*
- Yes
- No
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
- No
Address to send kit to*
Please note we can't send to PO boxes.

Street address Suburb City Post code

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