Keep New Zealand Beautiful

Our Vision

A nation inspired to keep New Zealand beautiful.

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How We Create Change

We mobilise over 100,000 volunteers every year - cleaning up beaches, picking up litter, removing graffiti, planting trees and much more. We also work in schools teaching our kids to be tidy Kiwis and helping to protect our beautiful country for future generations. We can't do this without your support.

As almost all our work is done by volunteers, your donation can achieve a huge amount.

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Helping Communities Help Themselves

We started out tackling litter, and that’s still a big part of what we do. Today, though, our work includes graffiti removal and reduction and waste minimisation and recycling initiatives. Our wider environmental projects include community beautification and clean-up events, tree and garden planting and waterways and highway restoration.

We run sustainability education programmes designed to inspire the next generation of Kiwis. We provide comprehensive resources to support members and volunteers in their community efforts. And our annual Keep New Zealand Beautiful Awards celebrate our best towns, cities and local heroes, who lead the way with their outstanding environmental and beautification work.

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Our Story

In 1979, as the New Zealand Litter Control Council, the organisation became an incorporated Society with a new constitution and structure. In the same year, the Litter Act 1979 introduced stronger anti-litter laws and gave official recognition to the Council as the body primarily responsible for the promotion of litter abatement in New Zealand.

The Council again changed its name in 1984, this time to Keep New Zealand Beautiful Society Inc., to give it a more positive image and to add impetus to a totally community-based approach to the litter problem.