With Clean Up Australia Day just around the corner, local residents are encouraged to get behind Australia’s biggest environmental community event.

Gosford City Council is supporting Clean Up Australia Day and urges everyone in the community to take up the challenge on Sunday 1 March.

Mayor of Gosford City Clr Chris Holstein said, “Clean Up Australia Day is the perfect opportunity for everyone to come together and help clean up our local parks and waterways and think about how we can reduce our impact on the environment.

"With a range of clean-up sites across Gosford City, participating is easy and a way of ensuring that rubbish doesn’t become part of our otherwise stunning landscape," he said.  

Australians generate almost 32 million tonnes of rubbish each year, making us the second highest producers of waste per person in the world.

Council also urged local residents to look carefully at the types of rubbish they are sending to their local landfill, and consider if they could recycle or reuse it instead.

“While we are pretty good at recycling, half the rubbish our country produces is still heading to landfill, which we are fast running out of space for, or it is being dumped into our natural environment,” said Clr Holstein.

Paper, cardboard, metal and most types of plastic can be recycled, while particularly disused building materials can also be reused. Waste can be easily turned into a valuable resource.

To get involved in Gosford City's Clean Up Australia Day, contact David Couture or Beth Tarilton on 4325 8142 to find out where your nearest clean up site is. Alternatively, to register and supervise your own site, please visit the website, www.cleanup.com.au or call 1800 CUA DAY (1800 282 329).

And don't forget to bring along gloves, a hat, sunglasses and sunscreen.

Gosford City Clean Up Australia Day is sponsored by Gosford City Council, 2GO FM, Central Coast Sand and Soil (Forresters Beach and Tumbi Umbi), Kincumber Sand and Soil, and Thiess Services.