February Hui-tanguru 2026
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Nicola Morris
same as the effluent which is As I sit down to prepare the February issue of the Herald, flooding parts of our coastline it's a scorching day (summer at the moment - but looking has arrived!). Can you believe at the photos, there's a few that three of our major cities things there that I don't want (Wellington, Christchurch and to be swimming with! Auckland) are telling us to stay Sustainable Coastlines CEO out of the water ? And we have Sam Judd had this to say: all seen the images of "floating "This event gave people bits" in the water - that is just an opportunity to engage in crazy ! something positive during It is just not OK to live next to difficult times. But beyond the sea, or for that matter any the clean-up itself, we're body of water and not be able creating lasting behaviour to use it for exercise, recreation Lee Steffens, Neptune Diving at Days Bay change. When volunteers see or just plain relaxation. firsthand the impact of plastic with the "remoter" less visible areas It seems very topical then to pollution and start to separate out do an Eastbourne and Bays recap along our coastline. recyclables, they carry those waste of the highly successful "Clean up We need to put a challenge out minimisation practices home. And the Hutt" campaign that rolled out to ourselves and to the Hutt City that's where the real transformation in December. Council - how do we keep our Eastbourne is very lucky in that coastline cleaner? No it's not the happens, changing how we all think about and manage waste in our we have a great community which daily lives". gets stuck in and has regular beach A huge thank you to marine clean ups. contractors Underwater Solutions Including 6 divers , there were just and Neptune Diving who undertook under one hundred people who the diving work and thanks to all gave up their day to clean up our the sponsors including Hirepool, local part of the coast line (including Benefitz,Trumpet, AON and Hutt Matiu/ Somes Island) . City Council. Over a tonne of rubbish was To all those who volunteered a collected and we can see that the higher volumes tend to correlate huge thank you to you all! PETONE
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