Are you interested in taking action against ocean pollution at your local coastline?

Join us Saturday 24th February from 10:30am at Petone Beach Ski Club to clean the beach and learn about Litter Intelligence! Learn how to set up and run a survey, sort, and record rubbish in an audit, and add your data to Litter Intelligence, the national database and solutions platform.

All are welcome to this whānau-friendly free event.  You can come for the entire event or drop in when you can to do your bit to prevent plastics and other litter from polluting our coastlines.

All equipment will be provided including gloves, sacks, health and safety documents.

Timing

• 10:30am – Event sign-in begins at the Honiana Reserve Car Park
• 10:40am – General welcome and H&S briefing
• 10:45am – Litter Intelligence briefing
• 10:50am – Litter survey set up
• 11:00am – Clean-up begins
• 12:00pm – Litter audit back at registration area
• 12:45pm – Wider clean up finishes for those who wish to keep cleaning
• 1:00pm – Celebration back at registration area with Phoenix drinks!
• 1:30pm – Event ends

Any questions – contact Ben at [email protected]

About the Litter Intelligence Programme

Working in collaboration with the Ministry for the Environment, Statistics New Zealand and the Department of Conservation, we have developed a national beach litter monitoring programme that will enable us to build an accurate picture of the beach litter problem in New Zealand and help to prioritise solutions.

By working to a United Nations Environment Program survey methodology, the data is collected at the highest standard of scientific rigour, allowing it to be used for national, regional and international reporting, including progress against UN Sustainable Development Goals.

To collect the beach litter data long-term, we work with community groups & organisations to conduct beach litter surveys across Aotearoa at least four times per year. We provide the training and tools required to take part in this project as Citizen Scientists, conducting regular litter surveys at their chosen local beach sites and loading the litter data into a new, easy to use nationwide beach litter Citizen Science Platform/App we’ve developed specifically for the project. The Litter Intelligence litter data base also includes a solutions data base and some awesome litter data visualisation tools that are in development at present. All the litter data collected is freely available to the groups involved as well as to the wider public and decision makers.

Interested in setting up your own site but can’t make the event? Please complete this form and we’ll reach out.