Clean-Up Australia Day is Sunday 2 March this year and once again the whole of the Noosa community is encouraged to help remove any litter and rubbish from our parks and streets, waterways, wetlands and along the foreshores and beaches of our beautiful region.
In 2025, Australia’s longest running and largest national day of environmental action, Clean Up Australia Day, will celebrate 35 years of bringing local communities together to Clean Up and help to improve and conserve our environment.
The national CUAD event has been coordinated locally for many years by community group NICA (Noosa Integrated Catchment Association). This year NICA volunteer Tony Clarke has organised 14 registration and collection sites across the Noosa region, including six in the hinterland, two along the eastern beaches and six around the lower Noosa River and Lakes.
Between 8am and 11am on Sunday 2 March all residents and visitors are invited to register at one of the 18 sites, search and collect for rubbish in the vicinity and return it to the sign-on point for proper disposal. Gloves and collecting sacks are provided.
NICA president Jill Campbell emphasised the value of the annual Clean Up event to the Noosa environment and community: “On that day, we can all get out and about in our special local places and help to keep them free of damaging rubbish materials. Every piece of litter can smother part of the natural environment, contaminate the soil, vegetation or an aquatic habitat. Every piece of litter removed improves the natural environment on which our diverse local wildlife depends.”
“This year we are encouraging greater efforts to clean-up and start to restore natural sites which are damaged and neglected. This is a key part of catchment management to which everyone can contribute, so please step up with your friends and families to Clean Up Noosa, on 2 March.”
The list of sites where you can register on the day are in Noosa Today and the Cooroy Rag. You will also find the list of sites on NICA’s website.
