Clean Up Australia

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Clean Up Australia Limited
Founded8 November 1989 (1989-11-08) [nb 1] [1]
Founder Ian Kiernan, Kim McKay [2]
Typeenvironmental conservation
ABN 93 003 884 991 [1]
Registration no.ACN 003 884 991 [1]
Key people
Ian Kiernan AO, chairman
Website cleanupaustraliaday.org.au

Clean Up Australia Limited is a not-for-profit Australian environmental conservation organisation. It is registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission. [3]

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Clean Up Australia Limited has sponsored a yearly Clean Up Australia Day since 1990. [4] On the first Sunday of March each year, [5] groups of citizens clean up rubbish at different sites across the country. [6] According to the organisation, more than a million people participate each year. [7] Clean Up Australia Limited also supports other environmental efforts, including preventing waste in the environment. [4]

History

Clean Up Australia Day was first held in January 1989. [8] The idea developed from an Australian Bicentenary event, "Clean-Up Lake Macquarie", which was instigated in 1987 by Ivan Welsh as Mayor of Lake Macquarie. [9] Then followed the local "Clean Up Sydney Harbour" [10] event in 1989, organised by Ian Kiernan [11] and Kim McKay, with more than 40,000 volunteers who collected approximately 5,000 tonnes of rubbish. The 1990 Clean Up Australia Day event was launched by the then prime minister, Bob Hawke, over the initial opposition of the then state premier, Nick Greiner. [12] Greiner later reversed his position and offered his support for the event. [13]

Clean Up Australia has evolved into an organisation that works with community, government and businesses to "provide practical solutions to help Australians all live more sustainably every day of the year." [4]

Today the organisation's focuses are equal in preventing new rubbish from entering the environment as well as removing what rubbish is already present.

"The Rubbish Report" is produced each year from data collected by surveying participants. As of 1990, 94% of rubbish was from packaging. [14] By 1993, the campaign was focusing more strongly on sorting the rubbish collected into recyclables, [15] and Kiernan was using Clean Up Australia Day to advocate for changes to legislation surrounding reduction of packaging and returning packaging to companies. [16] In 1994, over 8,000 sites were cleaned up as part of the day. [17] In 2008, Kiernan put a focus on bottled water, advocating for the expansion of container deposit refunds in Australia. [18] In 2012, sponsorship cutbacks and a drop in private donations caused the organisation to let go all of its paid staff. [19]

Clean Up the World

Clean Up the World was established in 1994 after Ian Kiernan and Kim McKay approached the United Nations Environment Programme, with an idea to take his Clean Up concept global. [20] [21]

Clean Up the World is an international campaign that encourages communities to clean up, fix up and conserve their environment through the Clean Up the World Membership program.

A Clean Up the World weekend is held on the third weekend of September each year and, by 2007, the event attracted more than 35 million people from over 120 countries to volunteer. [21]

Other campaigns and projects

Business Clean Up Day

Business Clean Up Day [22] provides Australian businesses with an opportunity to contribute to waste reduction and the improvement of the environment.

Businesses register their commitment to implement at least one environment-friendly initiative in their workplace, giving them an opportunity to work as a team and make a difference to their local environment. [23]

Schools Clean Up Day

Schools Clean Up Day [24] is designed to allow students to participate in Clean Up Australia as part of a school activity.

Clean Up the Kimberley

Clean Up the Kimberley [25] is a series of community action-based projects focussed on the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The primary objectives of this initiative are to clean up rubbish hot spots, increase awareness of the scale and impact of rubbish in the region, change tourist and local community behaviour and improve local recycling and waste management infrastructure.

Clean Up the Alps

Clean Up the Alps [26] is a project aimed at protecting the Alpine region of Victoria. It is run in conjunction with Parks Victoria, Conservation Volunteers Australia, and local communities as part of the Victorian Government's 'The Alps: A fresh start – a healthy future' program. The project culminates in the Clean Up the Alps weekend, held annually in November.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Date of incorporation.

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  3. ↑ "Clean Up Australia Limited profile page on the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission website".
  4. 1 2 3 "About Clean Up Australia".
  5. ↑ "Clean Up Australia Day FAQ page".
  6. ↑ "Clean Up Australia Day events page".
  7. ↑ "Clean Up Australia Day website".
  8. ↑ "Column 8", Sydney Morning Herald, 22 September 1989, p 1 accessed 24 February 2012 via factiva.com (Document smhh000020011117dl9m00tte); "CLEAN Up Australia, which is organising a national clean-up day on January 21, now has 41 groups registered to take part"
  9. ↑ Gordon, Jason (17 March 2007). "Former mayors castle Herald". p. 5. In 1987 he instigated the Clean-Up Lake Macquarie campaign as an Australian Bicentenary event. After its success, Ian Kiernan arranged a series of meetings at Lake Macquarie to learn more.
    Kiernan then went on to organise the inaugural Clean-Up Sydney event, which then grew into Clean-Up Australia Day and now Clean-Up the World Day.
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  20. ↑ "Solo anti-rubbish campaign sparks global clean-up.", Reuters News, 2 September 1993 accessed 24 February 2012 via factiva.com (Document lba0000020011121dp9202qa4); "A round-the-world yachtsman's campaign against ever-growing mounds of garbage has prompted 600 communities to take part in a global clean-up, an Australian environmental organisation said on Thursday. ... Ian Kiernan, the yachtsman who launched the project after sailing round the world alerted him to widespread sea pollution, said 600 communities in 17 countries will clean streets, waterways and beaches from 17 to 19 September. ... Countries involved in the worldwide event, coordinated by Clean up Australia in conjunction with the U.N. Environment Programme, include India, Zimbabwe and Mexico."
  21. 1 2 Kim McKay and Jenny Bonnin, "Acting locally", Sunday Telegraph (Sydney, Australia), 16 September 2007, p 8 accessed 24 February 2012 via factiva.com (Document SUNTEL0020070915e39g0007a); "An estimated 35 million people from around 120 countries will participate this weekend in the 15th Clean Up the World campaign, a great Australian export. Established in 1993 by the Clean Up Australia team, the campaign partners Clean Up the World with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), to encourage communities around the globe to take action, improving their environment and limiting the impacts of climate change."
  22. ↑ Business Clean Up Day
  23. ↑ "Australian Institute of Packaging | Business Clean Up Day" . Retrieved 28 January 2024.
  24. ↑ Schools Clean Up Day
  25. ↑ Clean Up the Kimberly
  26. ↑ Clean Up the Alps
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