Palm Beach Clean Up  - 10am on the 29th of January, 2023

Come and join us for our January clean up at Palm Beach. We'll meet in the grass area south of the North Palm Beach Surf Lifesaving Club - see map below. We have gloves, bags and buckets. We'll clean up this area to try and catch all the litter before it enters the ocean. We're trying to remove as much plastic and rubbish as possible before it enters the ocean. Some of us can focus on Pittwater area, grass areas and others can walk along the beach. We will clean up until around 11.20 and after that we will sort and count the rubbish, so we can contribute to research by entering it to a marine debris data base. The sorting and counting is normally finished around noon and we'll often go for lunch together at our own expense. We understand if you cannot stay for this part, but are grateful if you can. We appreciate any help we can get, no matter how small or big. No booking required - just show up on the day. We're a friendly group of people and everyone is welcome to this family friendly event. It's a nice community - make some new friends and do a good deed for the planet at the same time. For everyone to feel welcome, please leave political and religious messages at home. There is a carpark, but it can be busy on Sundays, so check streets close by as well if it's full. Message us here if you are lost. All welcome - the more the merrier. Please invite your friends too.

South Curl Curl Clean Up, November Clean Up, November, 2022

We had our last clean-up of the year - at south Curl Curl. This was a beach that initially looked very clean, but whatever is in the bushes will soon end up on the beach. Maybe not some of the bigger items though. Some of the more unusual finds on this clean up were: four chairs, a chair made from a car seat, a rusty car part, a full Woolworths basket of old rusty car cleaning and maintenance products - and of course lots of food wraps, bottles, cans and remnants of plastic bags.
A huge thank you to all crew members that came and helped clean up south Curl Curl. Thank you to everyone for all your hard work in 2022 - for helping sharing our posts, talking rubbish with your friends, cleaning up, helping us set up, counting, sorting, sitting hours in front of the computer doing admin, taking photos, being a friendly face and for being one of our new friends in 2022. We're looking forward to making more friends in 2023. Do a good deed for the planet and make some new friends at the same time.

Dee Why Lagoon Clean Up, October, 2022

Dee Why Lagoon Clean Up - 2130 plastic bottles, 679 cans, 2868 pieces of hard plastic, 200 straws, 20 tyres, 16 pieces of clothing, 55 face masks, 35 shoes, 407 balls, plus 60 kilos of soft plastic, just to name a few of the things we found today. This equals to more than 50 big bags full of rubbish. A huge thank you to all crew volunteers who came today to help making our planet a better place for all beings. We are truly grateful and honoured to know so many lovely people.
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Clontarf Beach Clean Up, September, 2022

We would like to say a huge thank you to all the wonderful people who came to the Clontarf Clean Up. We suspected lots of microplastics and we found plenty of it. Lots of plastic, broken glass and cigarette butts plus a whole surfboard and a wheel clamp were two of the more unusual items that we found. We are so happy that so many wonderful and kind peole give up their Sunday morning to help make this planet a better place for all beings. Grateful to know you and getting to know more of you.

Shelly Beach Clean Up, August, 2022

A huge thank you to today's crew members that helped clean up Shelly beach in Manly. Thousands of plastic items were picked up by these wonderful volunteers today. An Aldi shopping trolley, a chair and a huge cushion were some of the bigger items - besides that, we picked up a backpack (that had certainly seen better days), cigarette butts, toys, old clothing, bottles, cans and plenty of single-use coffee cups. Great effort everyone. Apologies if we didn't get the chance to chat to everyone today, but we truly would like to thank each and everyone for helping protecting our beautiful environment. Protect what you love.
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Whale Beach Clean Up, July, 2022

Thank you to all the fantastic crew members who came and helped making Whale beach cleaner and by so, saving the lives of many animals. We found a piece of a sofa, plastic bottles, balcony lights, no parking signs (three of them), cans, cigarette butts and lots of plastic. We love our clean up community - all these people are truly inspirational giving up their Sunday mornings to help out our planet

Narrabeen Lake Clean Up, June, 2022

Thank you to all the fantastic crew members who came and helped our beautiful area cleaner and by so, saving the lives of many animals. Our youngest crew member was sleeping in his baby carrier throughout the event Great work by his mum Inger. We love our clean up community - all these people are truly inspirational giving up their Sunday mornings to help out our planet
We found a message in a bottle too - we've called them and sent a message but haven't received any reply. Thousands of bottles, plastic, toys, cigarettes, a bike, old VCR tapes and much more were picked up from the lagoon.

Long Reef Clean Up, May, 2022

A huge thank you to everyone who came along today to the Long Reef clean up. We couldn't do this without you, so we're forever grateful to each and everyone who comes along to the clean up events. The beach was pretty clean which is a good thing. Lots of confetti, cigarette butts and general plastic. We couldn't do a sort and count today due to the wind, but nature thanked us by having a stingray showing up close to the boat ramp, some pelicans, and if you walked up to the headland afterwards there were a few whales and dolphins too. Our next clean up will be posted shortly and we expect that one to be a big one, so we need as many of you as possible to come and help out.
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Manly Vale Creek Clean Up, April, 2022

What a massive clean up this was. Some lovely new crew members came and chipped in today. We found tents, car parts, a wig, a heater, soccer goal posts, soccer goal nets, balls, old rusty pipes and of course the usual suspects: bottles, cans, plastic bags and food wraps.

Mona Vale Beach Clean Up, March 2022

What a lovely crew we had today coming to Mona Vale Beach. We thought we would get drenched looking at the clouds, but it all went well. We picked up over a thousand items and we found over 700 cigarett butts close to the building site. The best adventure today was to get a big piece of plastic down from a tree close to the beach.

Queenscliff Clean Up, February, 2022

What a great clean up today. Despite a huge surf carnival, floods, rain and a gastro outbreak - we did it. We are forever grateful for each and everyone of you. Today, we didn't do a count due to the predicted weather conditions, but we found many balls, plastic bottles, towels, a greenhouse, dentures and a big mattress among many things.

Narrabeen Lake Clean Up, January 2022

Thank you so much to all amazing people who came along today to help clean up Narrabeen Lagoon. 6940 pieces were collected, including about 800 pieces of shattered glass, a UTE liner, a three-legged plastic chair, bicycle parts, a disabled toilet sign and lots of single use plastic items including 210 straws.

Collaroy Clean Up, May, 2021

Thank you to everyone who came to the May Clean Up in Collaroy. This was a collaboration with many other organisations, so it was a bit different. In June we are back to our "normal chaos" again. 

Balmoral Clean Up, April, 2021

​We did this one off event in Balmoral on the other side of the Spit Bridge to help spread awareness about single use plastic and its impact on the beaches and local environment.  These amazing people picked up 1343 pieces of litter (mainly food wraps, cigarette butts and balloons) plus thousands and thousands of tiny pieces of glitter. What a bunch of legends. We met so many nice people today and we loved meeting each and everyone of you. We would say the most unusual item today was a door mat - how did that end up on the beach? A huge thank you to each and everyone of you - you, me, everyone, we are all "The Crew".

Narrabeen Clean Up, March 2021

The Narrabeen lagoon crew picked up over 2000 items from the lagoon, including a lobster cage, a vacuum cleaner pipe, a bunch of plastic flowers, two sandwich board signs, ones petrol leaf blower, one battery charger, three chairs, one kayak paddle, one tennis racket, two bricks and lots of plastic bottles, glass bottles, food wraps, straws, plastic cutlery, Styrofoam and cigarettes. Thank you to everyone who came and gave up their Sunday morning to make this world a little nicer place to live in for all beings. We're forever grateful to all of you. We're all "The Crew". ​

Newport Clean Up, February 2021

3523 items picked up at Newport beach today by these amazing crew members. What a great community we have. Some of the more unusual items were a big piece of a sofa, 24 metres of irrigation hose, a kid's scooter, a handbrake from a bicycle, a roadwork sign, a roof tile and of course we had plenty of the usual suspects: straws, single use coffee cups, beer bottles, plastic bottles, cigarette butts and food wraps. Do a good deed for the planet and make new friends at the same time ​

Dee Why Clean Up, November 2020

We just want to say a huge thank you to all brave, caring legends who came to clean up Dee Why Lagoon today on this very hot and windy day. We are so grateful for each and everyone of you and we love getting to know more and more. We didn't do a count today because of the heat and the wind but hopefully we'll be back to normal at our next event. Some of our more unusual items today were several wooden crates, a very old rusty shopping trolley with no wheels, a few carpets and of course the usual suspects cigarette butts, bottle tops and food wrappers. Looking forward to seeing you then. Until then, take care and if anything, just send us a message.

All clean ups - CANCELLED until Covid-19 restrictions ease. See you in 2021!

We are sad to announce that our clean ups are temporarily cancelled. We love all crew members and each and everyone of you bring so much kindness and hope for this planet but for the safety for all of you and the state the world is in right now with the Covid-19 virus we have made the heartfelt decision to cancel our future events, until advised we can have them back on again. The ocean and local environment still needs us, so if you're feeling well and you're out walking picking up rubbish, please feel free to send us your pics and we'll share it on our social media. The good deed for the planet will never stop. ❤🌏
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Curl Curl Clean Up, February 2020

We just want to say a massive THANK YOU to everyone who came along and helped make Curl Curl a bit cleaner today. More than 13,233 pieces of rubbish were picked up, sorted and counted. Love all the kind people coming together doing a good deed for the planet and making new friends at the same time. The oldest item we found today was a margarine tub with best before date January 1988. Plastic never go away, it just breaks to smaller and smaller pieces. Let's make this planet a better place by buying reducing our single-use-plastic footprint and inspire our friends to do the same. Our clean ups are always the last Sunday of every month at 10 am.

Narrabeen Clean Up, January, 2020

​We would like to say a massive thank you to all the lovely crew members who came along this hot day to help clean up Narrabeen lagoon. Over eighty people chipped in (not everyone is in this pic) to help make our planet a better and cleaner place. What looks clean, you'll soon discover is not particular clean and honestly don't we all prefer to swim, paddleboard and dive in clean waters? Some of the more odd items found today were a saucepan, a piece of a printer and a holder for a cigarette lighter. Sadly, we found (as we always do) some plastic items with chew marks on them.
By not disposing of our rubbish properly we are killing our precious wildlife, both on land and at sea. To help keeping our planet clean reduce your single-use plastic footprint and be a hero like people in this picture and pick up some rubbish even if it's not yours. Thank you again to all legends who came and helped out today. Hope to see you on one of our clean ups in the future again. Our clean ups are always the last Sunday of every month at 10am. We will post about our February clean up within a few days.
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Dee Why Beach Clean Up, November, 2019

We would like to thank all lovely crew members who came and helped clean up Dee Why beach yesterday. Over one hundred people turned up to give away some of their time on Sunday morning to make this planet and particularly our local area a better and more beautiful place to live. The crew is ALL OF US and we are so honoured and happy to getting to know more and more of you amazing people. Who would have thought that cleaning a beach could be so wonderful? Some of our interesting finds were a broken scooter, broken chairs, extremely old milk that made some of us gag (and laugh), a bicycle, real estate signs and the usual suspects; food wraps, cigarette butts, drink bottles, straws, cans and sadly a dead bird entangled in a balloon string. We'll be down at Manly beach front (South Steyne) next Sunday (1st of Dec between 10am - 4pm) as part of Manly Ocean Festival with an information stall (no clean up). We'd love to see you there. More than 30 environmental organisations will have stalls set up at this free event.
#northernbeachescleanupcrew #friends #beachcleanup #loveManly #community

Bilgola Beach Clean Up, October, 2019

Bilgola Beach Clean up. Over 50 crew cleaned up over 1642 items from the beach and the bush. What looked like a pristine beach shocked many when we so the final results after 60 minutes of picking up litter. Thank you again to all the awesome crew - we are all very grateful to get to know more likeminded and caring people, both regulars and new crew members chipped in as usual. One of our youngest crew members came even though she had a sore ankle and we did miss our friend Miles who had nippers. Hope to see all of you legends again next month.

Clontarf Clean up, September 2019

3447 items including 883 cigarette butts were picked up by the crew in September's clean up in Clontarf. Thank you so much to all legends who came along and helped out. We love having you part of the crew.

Mona Vale Beach Clean Up, August 2019

The biggest haul today were the cigarette butts. The Crew picked up 2134 cigarette butts today on Mona Vale Beach. One cigarette in water for about 96 hours leaches out enough toxins to kill half of the fish exposed to them. And just one butt can poison 40 liters of water. How many fish did The Crew help today? ​

Dee Why Lagoon Clean Up, July, 2019

A crew of over 60 people of all ages and nationalities came together in July to clean up Dee Why lagoon. 507 plastic straws, 532 plastic lids, 1350 food wraps, 2155 pieces of plastic bags, 400 pieces of Styrofoam, 68 glass bottles and much more were picked up today. A total of 8942 items counted and categorised. A huge thank you to everyone who are part of the crew. We are so incredibly thankful for each and everyone and we are so happy to know you amazing people. We cannot thank you enough for what you do to help spreading awareness about plastic pollution, making changes for a better world and turning up on a cold Sunday morning with a smile. You are all awesome!

Winnererremy Bay Clean Up, June 2019

A massive thank you to all crew members who came and cleaned up Winnererremy Bay today. As always, we love meeting you and seeing that so many people care about our local environment and wildlife makes us really happy. This was a fairly clean spot which is something we should celebrate. A short run down on numbers today: 76 crew, a total of 4968 pieces of rubbish picked up in an hour. 980 cigarette butts, 112 straws and cutlery, 273 toys, 163 plastic lids, 162 plastic bags, 876 food wraps, 102 non food wraps, 107 plastic bottles, 322 hard plastic bits, 349 pieces of Styrofoam, 402 pieces of broken glass, 60 glass bottles, 42 aluminium cans, 113 metal lids, 196 pieces of balloons, 536 glitter stars and much more. All of these items are now gone from nature thanks to you. We can't thank you enough! ​

Curl Curl Lagoon Clean Up, May, 2019

374 toys (mainly balls), 422 plastic lids, 234 drink bottles, 1303 plastic food wraps, 697 plastic remnants, 1418 pieces of Styrofoam, 2104 pieces of broken glass, 102 aluminium cans, 2 chairs, 1 hand luggage bag, 2 tents, 1 broken drone, 6 picnic blankets and some shoes, socks and undies and much more were picked up by this amazing crew today. Thank you so much to all the awesome crew members who turned up today to help make this world a better place. ​

Freshwater Beach Clean Up, April 2019

Northern Beaches Clean Up Crew tackles Styrofoam problems at Freshwater Beach in April 2018. We picked up 1664 plastic straws, 212 plastic lids, 82 plastic super market bags, 84 drink bottles, 854 plastic food wraps, 96 pieces of hard plastic, 612 pieces of plastic remnants, 181 random plastic bits, thousands of Styrofoam balls, 214 beer bottles, 477 pieces of broken glass, 106 aluminium cans, 198 metal lids, 32 balloons or pieces of balloons, 19 thongs, 1 table and 1 broken dinosaur suit and much more. A massive thank you to everyone!

Little Manly Clean Up, March 2019

It was a very cold and windy day when the crew met at Little Manly Beach in March. We had a great crew of lovely people of different ages and nationalities who chipping in for a good cause. It was so windy that we couldn't count the rubbish on the day but we found "the usual suspects"  - cigarette butts, water bottles, food wraps, plastic bags, straws and much more. The lovely restaurant "The Hold" wanted to help out spreading kindness around and shouted everyone who participated in the clean up a free lunch. How amazing are they! Kindness surely makes the world go around. 

Turimetta Beach Clean Up, February 2019

​Turimetta Beach, February 2019 was another good day with lots of new crew members who worked hard. This was one of the cleaner beaches we've seen so far but we still filled 13 bags of rubbish. 81 plastic bottles, 327 pieces of plastic food packaging, 58 pieces of foam, 234 glass bottles, 124 metal bottle tops, 52 cigarettes, 59 plant pots, 4 butter knives and much more was picked up by this awesome crew today. Please help spreading awareness about plastic pollution and come along to our next clean up. We have our clean ups the last Sunday of every month at 10am.

Dee Why Lagoon Clean Up, January 2019

Dee Why Lagoon January 2019 was a very hot day and it was the day after Australia Day so we hoped but didn't expect many crew members but yet we had over 50 people coming along to our event and more than 18,000 pieces of rubbish were picked up - thousands of plastic bottles, furniture, an old Medicare card from 1986 and a fire dishstinguisher.