A small group of tidy Kiwis have dedicated their spare time to keeping the shores of Mount Maunganui clean.
Prompted by the Rena disaster in 2011, the group of about 16 Tauranga locals decided to keep going after the oil was cleaned up.
Team leader Leigh Pettigrew said it was "just a case of the locals respecting the beach".
"I thought after Rena that's it, we've done our dash. But the rest of the group said hold on, we were picking up just as much rubbish as oil."
So the group decided to carry on.