PROJECTS
Clean Up Australia inspires and mobilises communities to improve and conserve our environment, eliminate litter, and end waste.
In support of our mission, Clean Up Australia and our Community Allies are working on various projects year-round, all across Australia. Projects focus on litter removal, litter prevention efforts and, in some cases, wider environmental restoration and social wellbeing.
Ubuntu Clean Up for Women's Legal Service QLD
Clean Up Australia and the Ubuntu Foundation are calling on Queenslanders to take action! For every registered participant in a Clean Up event between 1–31 May 2025, the Ubuntu Foundation will donate $20 to Women’s Legal Service Queensland.
Great East Coast Clean Up Tasmania
This May, Clean Up Australia and the Landscape Recovery Foundation are teaming up with East Coast Catchments for one month of community environmental action across beaches, parks and waterways along Tasmania’s East Coast. We hope you’ll join us!
Catch it in the Catchment
A yearly campaign run by Tamar Natural Resource Management in partnership with Clean Up Australia, catching litter from kanamaluka - the Tamar estuary catchment, in Tasmania.

The Redfern Waterloo Project
The Redfern Waterloo Project commenced in 2024. This project is based in the public housing estates of Redfern and Waterloo, Sydney. Residents participate in monthly Clean Ups, and stick around afterward for a bite to eat and a yarn!
The Mermaid Pool Fix Up Project
The Mermaid Pool Fix Up project has been in operation since 2002, when 71 volunteers removed more than four tonnes of rubbish from the site. This ongoing project focuses on litter and weed removal, planting and rehabilitation of Mermaid Pool on Manly Creek, Manly Vale NSW.
Great East Coast Clean Up 2023
Held in May and organised by the Landscape Recovery Foundation, the Great East Coast Clean Up is an annual month-long Clean Up and conservation effort across multiple council areas on the East Coast of Tasmania.
The Big Butt Hunt
Co-hosted by Clean Up Australia, No More Butts and Cairns Regional Council, the Big Butt Hunt has taken place on Clean Up Australia Day since 2022. Teams battle it out for the prestigious recognition of collecting the most cigarette butts on the day.
Greening the Green
A past project, Greening the Green was an early litter prevention effort by Clean Up Australia supported by PepsiCo. Sporting clubs in different council areas learned how to manage and collect soft plastics to be recovered, and eventually recycled into club equipment!
