Many school, community and business groups are doing a wonderful job of protecting our streams, beaches and ocean environments by running regular community clean up events.
Before getting started, it’s important to choose a suitable location for your clean up. Some stream and coastal environments provide habitat for nesting birds and plants that don’t like being trampled.
Tasman Bay Guardians have resources to help you with planning your clean up, including important health and safety information. Check it out out on their website(external link), where you can also submit an enquiry(external link) if you’d like help with choosing a suitable location and planning your clean up.
We support community clean ups by providing free disposal of litter collected. To get access to free disposal, complete this short survey (external link)to let us know where you’ve cleaned up and what you found. Show a screenshot or digital or printed copy of the completed survey to staff at one of our Resource Recovery Centres and then dispose of the litter you’ve collected free of charge.
You can do this at any one of the five Resource Recovery Centres across the Tasman District. Check out their locations here.
We all have a role to play in keeping our unique places around Tasman free of litter.
We can start with reducing the amount of waste we create by how we shop, reusing what we have, and recycling items we can no longer use. The final step for things we can’t yet reduce, reuse or recycle is to safely dispose at a Resource Recovery Centre or in our kerbside collection.
When we’re all reducing, reusing and recycling, litter and community clean ups might become a thing of the past!
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