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Keep New Zealand Beautiful’s Clean Up Week 2025

19 September 2025 - 25 September 2025

Region(s): Nationwide

Type(s): national Events

Clean Up Week is a great opportunity to get your friends, family, school, business, local community or youth group together and be part of New Zealand’s largest movement against litter.

School children taking part in a beach clean up and celebrating.

Cleaning up the coast

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School children in Mount Maunganui take part in a Sustainable Coastlines Phoenix Mt Maunganui Clean-up.

Rights: Sustainable Coastlines, CC BY-NC 3.0 NZ
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Every year thousands of Kiwis around the country mobilise to take part in New Zealand’s largest clean up event.

For more information and to register, see: www.knzb.org.nz/programmes/clean-new-zealand-beautiful/clean-up-week/.

You could also participate in World Cleanup Day on 20 September.

Related content

This article curates a range of Science Learning Hub resources for primary teachers related to recycling and biodegradability in the Material World strand of the New Zealand Curriculum.

We also curated information from the Building Science Concepts Book 60 Rubbish: How Do We Deal with It? for use in the early to middle primary years.

For more, check out these Hub resources:

  • Climate action

  • Waste management

  • Plastics and recycling

  • The future of plastics: reusing the bad and encouraging the good

  • Flight Plastics recycling technology

  • Down the drain

Activities

  • Waste – a growing challenge!

  • What happens to our plastic bottles?

  • Plastic – reuse, recycle or rubbish game

  • Thinking about landfills 

  • Looking at modern landfill systems

Citizen science

  • Litter intelligence

  • Mizuiku Upstream Battle

  • Backyard Battle 

  • The Plastic Tide – case study

  • Litterati

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Glossary

Published: 26 July 2025
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