Registrations for Clean Up Australia Day 2010 are now open so it’s time to start mobilising your family and friends to join your local community in March for the 20th anniversary of Clean Up Australia Day. 2010 marks an incredible 20 years since Ian Kiernan AO, founder of Clean Up Australia Day, launched the event around Australia by urging people to make a difference to the environment by cleaning up their local areas for a couple of hours. Since then, his simple idea has evolved to be Australia’s largest community-based environmental event. In 2009, almost 630,000 volunteers participated and 7,000 sites were registered for Clean Up Australia Day. Get a group together and register your chosen Clean Up site online, or simply join as an individual to volunteer at a registered site near you.

• Clean Up Australia Day – Sunday 7 March
• Business Clean Up Day – Tuesday 2 March
• Schools Clean Up Day – Friday 5 March