Latest news: Clean Up Australia Day

City Services crews are preparing for Clean Up Australia Day, the nation’s largest community-based environmental event, on Sunday.

Vapes, cigarette butts, coffee cups and soft plastics are amongst the commonly reported items collected by volunteers on Clean Up Australia Day – but you can’t help but be shocked by the scale of what ends up in our environment as litter, says Pip Kiernan, Chair of Clean Up Australia.

Terry de Luca has organised his suburb's Clean Up Australia Day volunteers for 20 years - a local way to look after the planet.

Canberra MPs and MLAs joined public-spirited volunteers to tidy up Canberra on Clean Up Australia Day on Sunday.

Olympians, Paralympians and 2022 Commonwealth Games prospects will partner with the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) for Clean Up Australia Day activities tomorrow, Sunday 6 March.

The country's largest community-based environmental event, Clean Up Australia Day, will this year incorporate a nationwide citizen science project to gauge the extent of face mask litter.