Beach & Street Cleanups Groups



ICW’s Keep Inner-City Wellington Beautiful Clean-up Crews
Are you an inner-city apartment building person who is interested in keeping your local street, gutter and/or area a little less home for litter? Yay! We can provide a free Clean-Up Crew kit to get you underway - a litter pick-up stick, a pair of gloves, a bucket, AND a hi-viz vest! (and, fo course, bragging rights!).

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Keep New Zealand Beautiful
From their Facebook page - January 2025: Big changes are happening at Keep New Zealand Beautiful, and we couldn’t be more excited for the year ahead! After a challenging 2024, we’re stepping into 2025 with a renewed focus on what matters most: keeping Aotearoa clean and beautiful. After some shuffling behind the scenes, we now have dedicated resources to lead the charge for our 57-year-old brand, to lead our national initiatives, ensuring the spirit of Tidy Kiwis thrives across the country. Together, we’ll tackle the plastics and rubbish threatening our streams, beaches, and parks.

Let’s make 2025 a year of positive change. Join us in keeping NZ beautiful!

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Clean Streets New Zealand

This group regularly organises litter cleanups in Mt Victoria.
From their Facebook page: This is for everyone who'd like to do a little to make a lot of difference. Just keep your place, and the footpath, gutter and street outside your place clean. Together we can make a difference to our land, our town, our streets, our cities, our waterways, our oceans. It starts with us!”

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Ghost Divers NZ
From their website: Ghost Diving New Zealand aims to actively promote environmental awareness and conservation by the pro-active removal of rubbish and debris from the sea floor and coastline. Ghost Diving New Zealand encourages passionate volunteers to help in the global fight against pollution, with emphasis on education, conservation and exploration.

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Keep Hutt Valley Beautiful
From their website: Through the iconic “Keep New Zealand Beautiful” brand, and with the help of many different volunteers, Keep Hutt Valley Beautiful plans, undertakes, administers, leads and publicizes environmental beautification projects and events to improve and beautify the environment and the appearance of the Hutt Valley in general.

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Keep Mt Cook Clean
From their website: Keep Mount Cook Clean meets every second month on the first Saturday of the month. The group meets at 10:30am outside the Mt Cook Kitchen and Takeaway, 75 Wallace Street.  The litter pickup is for one hour only.  It is surprising how much can be collected in just one hour!  Gloves and bags are provided. Contact Peter, our Coordinator, at keepmountcookclean@gmail.com or signup to the Mt Cook Mobilised e-bulletin for reminders.

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Petone Beach Clean-up Crew
From their Facebook page: This page is to inform anyone and everyone whom would like to volunteer at a local beach clean up held weekly, monthly and randomly at Petone beach , Port Road beach cove Seaview, Turakirae Head Seal Colony and the Eastbourne Coast .

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Sustainable Coastlines
From their website: Sustainable Coastlines brings people together to reduce plastic pollution and other litter to protect the moana we all love. We operate nationwide, inspiring change through beach clean-ups, education, and litter data collection.

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Sustainability Trust
From their website: Our Community Clean Ups will resume in February 2025 and they are held the third Wednesday of each month

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Clean Where You Walk
Melissa Lieser opened her Instagram account, 'Clean Where You Walk', in 2018, when she was still living in the United States."I would come home and complain after walking my kids to school about how dirty my neighbourhood was," she said. "My husband said, 'Why don't you just pick it up then?' "I thought, well, that's a great idea, so I started cleaning up once a week on my walk home from dropping my kids off at school and documenting it on social media."

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Want to help on a street or beach cleanup?

We are so lucky in the Wellington area that we have many people who are willing to head out and tackle picking up litter and being part of street and/or beach cleanups.

If you are interested in helping out, here are some of the groups in the area.