Seaweek – Kaupapa Moana is New Zealand’s annual, national week of celebrating the sea and is taking place this year between 2-10 March 2024.

Come and join CVNZ and Sustainable Coastlines on Saturday 2nd March from 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm for a coastline clean-up along the edge of of the Te Ihutai/ Avon-Heathcote Estuary.

In addition, Sustainable Coastlines’ will be running a Litter Intelligence survey. Litter Intelligence is Aotearoa’s first and only national litter monitoring programme. The litter data collected can then be used to action change and create solutions to reduce pollution on the coastlines of Aotearoa.

The pollution collected from the Litter Intelligence area will then be audited at an event in Sumner the following weekend, Saturday, 9th March.  For more information head to the Sustainable Coastlines event page: https://sustainablecoastlines.org/events/

PLEASE REGISTER using the link below.

Timings 

• 1:00 pm – Sign in opens at South New Brighton Community Hall!
• 1:10 pm – Introductions by CVNZ and Sustainable Coastlines
• 1:15 pm – Health & Safety briefing
• 1:30 pm – Litter Survey and wider clean-up commences
• 3:00 pm – Return all rubbish back to South New Brighton Community Hall – followed by refreshments.
• 3:30 pm – Closing remarks and end of event wrap-up!

Any questions please reach out to: Briar – [email protected] or [email protected]

If you’d like to find out about all the other exciting events happening for Seaweek, check out the Seaweek website:
https://www.seaweek.org.nz/whats-on