Take the Pledge News

Congratulations to Blacktown City Council for winning the Blue Star Metropolitan Overall Sustainability Award for 2018

The annual Keep NSW Beautiful (KNSWB) Blue Star Sustainability (Metropolitan) Awards were announced on Tuesday 14 November. The event, hosted by Keep NSW Beautiful and the 2017 winner, Randwick City Council, was held at the Prince Henry Centre following a programme of presentations by prominent industry representatives and Councils. The Blue Stars program recognises the […]

$5,000 up for grabs in the KNSWB Community Litter Grants

Keep NSW Beautiful (KNSWB) will run a series of Community Litter Grants Information Forums to assist community organisations and groups learn more about the EPA’s Community Litter Grants Program. Find out more here 

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 […]