Clean Up Australia Day
7th March, 2010

Gwydir Shire Council has joined forces with Clean Up Australia Chairman Ian Kiernan AO in an effort to make Clean Up Australia Day, which celebrates its 20th national anniversary on 7 March, its biggest event yet by calling for Gwydir shire residents to get involved.

2010 marks an incredible 20 years since Ian Kiernan AO, founder of Clean Up Australia Day, launched the event around Australia urging people to make a difference by cleaning up their local areas for a couple of hours. Since then, his simple idea has evolved to be Australia’s largest community-based environmental event. In 2009 alone, almost 630,000 volunteers participated and 7,000 sites were registered for Clean Up Australia Day.

“This year we’ve registered Gwydir Shire as a particularly important area where locals will be able to come down and get involved. Don’t forget to bring your gloves!”

Says Kiernan: “We all have an impact on the environment we live in through what we use, reuse, throw away and pick up. So we can all make a difference by thinking of these things every day to benefit our
environment and community.”

“Clean Up Australia Day is a fantastic, fun event where everyone in the local community can come together and pick up rubbish to conserve the environment. Just one piece of rubbish can make a difference and ensure your favourite local beaches and parks stay clean for the future,” adds Kiernan.