Registrations are now open for Clean Up Australia Day 2019, so it’s time to check out rubbish hot spots in your neighbourhood.
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Businesses are encouraged to focus their action on Clean Up Day, Tuesday, February 26; schools run their own Clean Up on Friday, March 1; and youth and community groups take to their streets over the weekend of March 2-3.
Urging individuals and groups to continue the impetus that Clean Up founder Ian Kiernan AO created through his efforts, managing director of Clean Up Australia Terrie-Ann Johnson is keen to remind us that every volunteer is Ian’s successor.
“Clean Up Australia Day is the nation’s largest community mobilisation event, and 2019 is the perfect time to band together in Ian’s honour, celebrate what has been achieved, show your support for his vision and o continue his dream to Clean Up Australia,” she said.
“Ian firmly believed that every single one of us can and should make a difference, volunteer action was his amazingly simple idea, his dream and his inspiration. His passion was working alongside his fellow Aussies as we clean up our environment and/or reduce waste before it is a problem. Moving into the future I urge all Australians to take up the challenge – become Ian’s successor and continue the momentum he fostered.”
“Change starts with you. The key to success is stopping litter becoming rubbish. There are so many actions every one of us can take to help reduce the 8 million tonnes of plastic entering our oceans worldwide each year. So why not book-mark today in your journey and join us for a 2019 Clean Up.”
Over the last 29 years volunteers have donated more than 33 million hours, at over 178,000 locations across the country. Together they have removed the equivalent of 350 thousand ute loads of rubbish across Australia.
To register your clean up event or make a donation go to www.cleanupaustralia.org.au
One-hundred per cent of monies raised through donation is allocated to the purchase of materials provided free of charge to community.