Clean Up Australia
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Clean Up Australia is a not-for-profit Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n environmental conservation organisation founded by Australian Ian Kiernan
Ian Kiernan
Ian Bruce Carrick Kiernan AO is an environmentalist who organised the Clean Up Australia campaign, and in 1993 a similar Clean Up the World operation which attracted participation from 30 million volunteers in 80 countries....

, and co-founder Kim McKay, in 1989. It works to foster relationships between the community, business and government to address the environmental issues of waste, water and climate change. Since its inception, Clean Up Australia has grown to include other projects and campaigns including Business Clean Up Day, Schools Clean Up Day, Clean Up the Alps, Clean Up the Kimberley and Clean Up the World
Clean Up the World
Clean Up the World is a community-based, environmental campaign that inspires and empowers communities around the globe to clean up, fix up and conserve their environment....

. The organisation is behind Clean Up Australia Day, as well as other environmental projects and campaigns.

Clean Up Australia Day

Clean Up Australia Day is the most well-known effort by Clean Up Australia. It is held on the first Sunday of March every year, and encourages people to clean up their local areas. Any person can register a place they plan to clean up, on the Clean Up Australia website, and others can join them there. Activities on the day include removing large items such as car bodies from water ways and the collection of general waste lying around.

Clean Up Australia Day was first held in 1990. The idea was borne out of an Australian Bicentenary
Australian Bicentenary
The bicentenary of Australia was celebrated in 1970 on the 200th anniversary of Captain James Cook landing and claiming the land, and again in 1988 to celebrate 200 years of permanent European settlement.-1970:...

 event, "Clean-Up Lake Macquarie" which was instigated in 1987 by Ivan Welsh
Ivan Welsh
Ivan Joseph Welsh was an Australian politician.Born in Newcastle, Welsh attended Newcastle Boys' High School from 1952 to 1955 and served in the army from 1958 to 1967, including periods in Malaya and Vietnam . In 1961, he married Lorraine Gay Cox...

 as Mayor of Lake Macquarie. Then followed the local "Clean Up Sydney Harbour" event in 1989 which received an enormous public response with more than 40,000 Sydneysiders participating.

"The Rubbish Report" is produced each year from data collected by surveying participants.

Clean Up the World

Clean Up the World
Clean Up the World
Clean Up the World is a community-based, environmental campaign that inspires and empowers communities around the globe to clean up, fix up and conserve their environment....

 was established in 1993 after Ian Kiernan
Ian Kiernan
Ian Bruce Carrick Kiernan AO is an environmentalist who organised the Clean Up Australia campaign, and in 1993 a similar Clean Up the World operation which attracted participation from 30 million volunteers in 80 countries....

 and Kim McKay approached the United Nations Environment Programme
United Nations Environment Programme
The United Nations Environment Programme coordinates United Nations environmental activities, assisting developing countries in implementing environmentally sound policies and practices. It was founded as a result of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in June 1972 and has its...

, with an idea to take his Clean Up concept global.

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 with more than 35 million people from over 120 countries participating each year.

Business Clean Up Day

Business Clean Up Day 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 enivironment-friendly initiative in their workplace, giving them an opportunity to work as a team and make a difference to their local environment.

Schools Clean Up Day

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

Hundreds and thousands of students get involved each year, learning about the impact of waste on the environment and how they can make a difference to their local community.

Clean Up the Kimberley

Clean Up the Kimberley is a series of community action based projects aimed at promoting environmental, social and economic sustainability in 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 recycling and waste management infrastructure in the Kimberley region.

Clean Up the Alps

Clean Up the Alps is a project aimed at protecting the Alpine region of Victoria.

Clean Up the Alps 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. =)

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