Take the Pledge News

Keeping our environment litter-free in Parramatta, NSW

Keep NSW Beautiful and a team of enthusiastic volunteers made their way to Prince Alfred Square in the heart of Parramatta in Western Sydney last week to spread the ‘Take the Pledge’ message: help to keep NSW beautiful by not littering. It’s an important message to spread around the holidays, as the sun comes out […]

Take the Pledge takes to Parramatta in December

The KNSWB team will be in Prince Alfred Square and the local Parramatta area from 9am to 12pm on Friday 18th December encouraging locals and tourists to Take the Pledge. Our event media partner, Channel 7 will be there as well filming a news segment with some Channel 7 personalities. Take the Pledge is KNSWB’s […]

Help us spread the word about positive littering behaviours this holidays with Take the Pledge

Take the Pledge is KNSWB’s mass community awareness and engagement campaign. Through Take the Pledge we endeavour to spread a simple message to a critical mass of NSW citizens, visitors and tourists in pursuit of a litter-free society. Keep NSW Beautiful started Take the Pledge in 2014, operating on the principle that the solution to litter […]

Ben & Jerry’s Volunteers team up with Keep NSW Beautiful to Clean Up Coogee Beach

On Thursday 26 March,  we joined forces with a team of corporate leaders from Ben & Jerry’s at Coogee Beach for the first ‘Take the Pledge’ Day of 2015, including a litter count and collection of signed pledges from locals that they would not litter. The Day was a great success in raising awareness about […]

Leanne and her family were fabulous on Pledge Day

On Take the Pledge Day last year, Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH) Director of Governance and Service Strategy Leanne Siveyer took part in the events on 1 November and took the litter message to the beach with her family. Leanne shares her experience with us below: On Saturday, November 1, my family and I […]

Our Volunteers Went Head-to-Head with Local Litterbugs on Take the Pledge Day

On Saturday 1 November hundreds of volunteers gathered on NSW beaches to combat litter on their local beach. The KNSWB team was at Cronulla Beach with Cronulla Surf Lifesaving Club volunteers and Seven News Sydney Anchor, Mark Ferguson. Together we gathered over 5,000 pledges. Our vision is to kick-start start a grassroots movement that isn’t […]