Keeping NZ Beautiful for Rugby World Cup

Progress on the nationwide cleanup campaign COOL.

We are now gaining momentum with our campaign.
Keep New Zealand Beautiful are right behind us and as I have mentioned before they have targeted a national cleanup week of 21st August to the 28th August.
There are 73,123 farmers in NZ and so Keep NZ Beautiful are allocating us 70,000 litter bags. These will be available for collection at the following outlets:_-

• PGG Wrightson (100 stores nationwide)
• Farmlands (46 stores in the North Island)
• CRT (28 stores in the South Island)
• RD1 (not on board at present but hopefully they will join us)

The litter bags are packed into boxes of 200 each and each pallet has 10,000 bags.

We are planning to drop the 7 pallets progressively throughout NZ and then each pallet can be dispersed to the various outlets in each District.

This will involve Rotary members in each District being responsible for getting the litter bags to their outlets in their respective areas.

We are notifying all District Councils and they are being asked to make available their refuse tips, free of charge, for the weekend of the 27th and 28th August.. The Rotary Clubs within each District Council’s collection area are asked to liase with their Councils as to the collection of the litter bags. I would think that Rotary Clubs will be responsible for the collections.

We are having printed 25,000 flyers to go out with litter bags and also posters to go into the various stores to assist staff in promoting the campaign. All the store managers have been notified by their respective Head Offices to help with promotion.   Also we are planning nationwide advertising on TV, local radio stations, farming publications and local newspapers. We are planning to build up a strong momentum.

This campaign is not just for rural roads. Many city clubs will have walkways, beach fronts and the like which may need inspections.

This campaign is a wonderful window for Rotary and so with support of all Clubs, not only are we putting Rotary in the public eye, but also making our country looking “polished” for all our prospective visitors.

In summary:-

To distribute litter bags to outlets in each District.

To assist and or liase with District Councils with the collection and disposal of the litter bags.

To ask for more details click here