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Leader at looking after the beach.
Love planting trees to clean up waterways. #loveyourcoast
#loveyourwater
@sustainablecoastlines

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Big ideas. Bold action. Real impact.

These incredible alumni are past winners of the @gomedia_nz Young New Zealander of the Year Award. Who will be next to join them?

The @gomedia_nz Young New Zealander of the Year Award celebrates inspiring young people aged 15–30 who are making a real difference across Aotearoa.

They’re the changemakers, innovators, volunteers, entrepreneurs and community leaders who are lifting others up and showing what’s possible when passion meets purpose.

If you know a young person who’s made a significant positive impact over the past year, tell their story.

Nominate them today and help celebrate the future of Aotearoa. Link to nominate in bio.

#NewZealanderOfTheYear #NZOTY #YoungNZOTY #GoMedia #Rangatahi FutureLeaders Aotearoa

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Snippets of the recent clean up and waste audit along Suva Point - My Suva Park on Saturday 6th June 2026

We are thankful for the volunteers, for the MECC staff that helped load/unload the sacks of litter, the skip-bin company, the beautiful weather, the @sustainablecoastlines trainers, all the concerned citizens and organizations that joined in the clean up, the outrigger paddlers that cleaned the USP foreshore, the drivers that were going back and forth to pick teams and gear, the SCC workers at My Suva Park, and all other partners and champions that work at the grassroots, forefront, and behind the scenes to deal with this multifaceted issue of pollution

General litter removed: 440kg
Audited Waste: 78kg

This is the team work we all need to clean up Fiji

#marinepollution #cleanpacific #pacificyouth #solesolevaki

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Litter surveys in Fiji this World Environment Day! Local people, local data = local solutions to a global problem 🌏🏝

#worldenviromentday #beatplasticpollution #litterintelligence #loveyourcoast #datainsightaction

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A massive thanks to the team at Sustainable Coastlines for facilitating the clean up at New Brighton Beach!
Keep Christchurch Beautiful popped down with some extra gear and what a turnout!
Over 100 amazing humans turned up to clean up their local beach along with the Without Waste team, the Student Volunteer army and many more!
Thanks Tip Top for sponsoring the event it was an awesome morning of mahi for the East!
Go team! 🐬🌏🌊🩵

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ANZAC weekend culminating in a fantastic event by Sustainable Coastlines, Ben’s first with our incredible whānau! Amazing mahi with our most favourite people, my cup is very very full. Another core memory added to the vault. Thank you to everyone who came! #loveyourcoast

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Beautiful day at Tāwharanui for the final stop on the Kings Baton Relay with the @thenzteam whānau. A privilege to MC today’s event.

Awesome partnership with @sustainablecoastlines today to pick up over 1000 pieces of litter and a great legacy for the @glasgow_2026

127 days til Games time and I can’t wait to cheer on our Kiwi athletes.

PS - swipe to see who I took to “work” today🇳🇿

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Ever been diving with great white sharks? 🦈 Sustainable Coastlines co-founder Sam Judd was lucky enough to do just that! Hear from him on why you should vote for them for Fish of the Year 2026! 👉 www.fishoftheyear.org.nz

Thanks to the epic crew at @sharkexperiencebluff

@mountainstosea.org.nz @thelifeofrileynz @nzseaweek #fishoftheyear #fishoftheyear2026 #foty2026 #mangōtaniwha #shark #greatwhiteshark #protectwhatyoulove #aotearoa #oceanconservation #beatplasticpollution #seaweek #seaweek2026 #loveyourcoast #loveyourwater

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Thank you so much @samjuddnz for inviting me to join the Sustainable Coastlines cleanup up crew on Matiu/Somes Island yesterday as part of the massive multi-site Lower Hutt cleanup day. @briony.millar and I had a fantastic adventure for good - rock hopping, scrambling over cliffs, crawling through the very scratchy scrub, with the accompanying cacophony of gulls, penguins in the sea and in burrows, and slithering skinks. A really interesting mix of rubbish and thankfully maybe a little less than expected, and most of all a fantastic group of volunteers from local Iwi to @spiritofadventurenz crew. Such a huge operation with divers in the water, barges and boats and hundreds of volunteers across many sites, but seamlessly run. Well done Sam!

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EA throwback + a few moments from this year ✨

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Meat run up at the cavs 📍

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So much for Plastic Free July with our latest survey from Kāpiti Island. 97% of the litter we found was plastic! 😢At 596 pieces per 1,000m2, we also found much more than the national average of 292.

Some ‘highlights’ include:
🔫 20 shotgun waddings
🔴77 bottle caps and lids
🧤266 unidentifiable hard plastic fragments (yes we count them all).
🍶Just one ceramic fragment (glass and ceramic fragments are usually our second most common litter find).

We also found a surf hat (sadly not usable), a bottle of rum (with some still in it — yarr), and a ‘mini enema’ (for which our sanitary item handling procedure came into full force).

Where’s this stuff coming from? Not Kāpiti itself, that’s for sure. Apart from what comes from boats (and pirate ships), most of it will be coming out of bins, off the street, and down through waterways on the mainland. When it reaches the ocean it ends up wherever the currents decide.

Let’s do better at protecting our special places like Kāpiti Island. Understanding the nature of the problem with litter audits like this one is part of it. As is working with locals and local councils like Kapiti Coast District Council to find solutions.

See the full survey data at the link in our bio.

#plasticfreejuly #beatplasticpollution #reducesingleuse #systemschange #datainsightaction #litterintelligence #littersurvey #citizenscience

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Life’s chugging along, popping manus and building boats

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