Sunday 1st March 2020 is Clean Up Australia Day and it would be great if our District can make a combined effort to get some litter and garbage out of the environment. Does your Club area have any hot spots where the stuff accumulates? If so, why not organise a club team to clean it up? It’s a great opportunity for some fellowship, public relations, engagement with the local community, and also do something good for the planet.
It’s really easy to organise:
1.Identify a Club champion who will act as the site supervisor.
2.Identify a suitable site – it can be a local shopping centre, park, oval, bushland. Anywhere where there is an accumulation of litter.
3.Register the site with Clean Up Australia at https://www.cleanupaustraliaday.org.au/register-an-event
4.Decide on a meeting place and time
5.Organise a team of Club volunteers – from your Club, local schools, and the community at large
6.Identify where you will leave the collected material and call your local Council to arrange for them to remove it after the event. Councils will do this for free, they just have to know about it.
7.Go and do it on 1st March!
8.After the event, complete the form Clean Up will supply with their kit and email/mail it back to them.
It would be a help if you can advise you team to bring the following with them:
- Hat
- Gloves
- Good shoes
- Drink
- Food
- Bags to collect litter in (these need to be sturdy, not flimsy garbage bin liners)
- Sunscreen if they are sensitive
- Sense of humour
Clean Up Australia will send you a kit before the event, but if you have a big team you will need more rubbish bags and gloves.
If you have nay questions, please call Ron Wainberg from the Wahroonga Rotary Club on 0418 427 481.
Good luck! Let’s see which Club can collect the most litter…….
Ron Wainberg
Mobile: 0418 427 481