Clean Up Australia Day is an initiative by Clean Up Australia, an organization started by Ian Kiernan, to “inspire and work with communities to clean up, fix up and conserve our environment”. From its popular beginnings in 1989 and 1990, Clean Up Australia Day turned into Australia’s largest community-based environmental event, and has now become a widely acknowledged global event in the form of Clean Up the World.

In 2012, more than 1,000 volunteers participated in the clean up in Stanmore, with more than 200 bags of rubbish being collected, accumulating to over two tonnes of litter. Until we find a way to convince everyone that littering is harmful to the environment and the eye, it is important that we keep our communities clean. So this year Newington will once again be running a clean-up zone, though we are hoping to expand it in all directions from the Boarding House as our starting point, we will need more support in the form of volunteers, both students and parents. This really is an important universal initiative and we urge you to come take part.

Time: 9.00am
Date: Sunday 3 March
Place: Newington College Turning circle
Equipment: Wear covered shoes; bring gloves and a garbage bag

Edmond Cheng (12/FL) and Mandi Randell