Caring for our environment means actions such as avoiding creating waste, reusing as much as we can, and recycling when reuse isn’t possible. It can also be something as simple as picking up litter.
NPDC can support groups, schools or businesses that want to arrange their own litter clean-ups of public places, such as beaches, parks, walkways and roadsides.
We can provide bags, loan out reusable gloves, and arrange free disposal for the collected waste at your nearest transfer station.
There is a range of local organisations who already run regular beach-cleans or can provide training and support for your beach, river, or reserve clean up. Please contact them directly for more information.
Chaddy’s Charters regularly organise beach clean-ups for New Plymouth District beaches.
Please contact them directly to find out when their next beach clean-up will take place.
Sustainable Taranaki also organises community and beach clean-ups with their volunteers.
Please contact them directly to find out when their next beach clean-up will take place.
Keep New Zealand Beautiful also supports activities and events to keep our public spaces clean and beautiful, as well as providing useful resources.
Sustainable Coastlines offers training workshops for their Litter Intelligence programme. This is a citizen science platform to enable communities to contribute to a growing national litter database by monitoring their local beaches and auditing the litter.
These free workshops will pass on the skills in surveying, data collection, and health and safety that will allow attendees to play an important part in this long-term, grassroots effort. Join in to learn how to set up and run a survey, sort and record beach litter in an audit, and add your data into the national database and solutions platform. Register for an upcoming event here, or get in touch if you're interested in training to set up your own site for your whānau, school, business or community group.
Wanting to get out for a DIY beach-clean? Check out the areas below to see if there has been a recent clean-up in a survey area, and get in touch about what gear you'll need to safely clean-up.
Current survey areas:
Please see Sustainable Coastline’s website or get in touch to see what support they can offer. All questions and queries welcome.
Let’s all work together to keep New Plymouth District clean, pristine, and tidy!