John Coughlan, Leo Thompson and their dog, Lola, go for a morning walk at Logan Park in Dunedin on Saturday as they help pick up rubbish as part of Keep New Zealand Beautiful cleanup week. PHOTOS: GREGOR RICHARDSON
More than 100 people volunteered in the Keep Dunedin Beautiful cleanup day on Saturday, with the rubbish bags filling up in a matter of minutes.
Woodrow Papak, 8, Joel Papak, and Winnie Papak, 6, clean up rubbish at John Wilson Ocean Dr.
"Anything that can be recycled, will be recycled," Ms Porter said.
"We’ve picked up a lot of bags of bottles already.
"It’s a reminder for people to think twice about what they leave on the ground, and what it could do the environment," she said.
Some of the rubbish collected near John Wilson Ocean Dr.
In 2022, the organisation had over 67,400 volunteers who collected a total of 655 tonnes of waste over an area equivalent to 5751 rugby fields.
