You could be contributing to the mess on our beaches and not even know about it. Recently 90 parking tickets or car registration dockets were picked up by volunteers cleaning up Rangitoto island. We traced several of them back to their Auckland owners.

2.66 tonnes of trash was removed in the first Christmas coast clean-up in Auckland, worrying figures for those hoping to hit the beaches this summer.

Aucklanders could be penalised for not recycling as part of a move to streamline how the city's waste is collected.

A volunteer drive to clean up Kiwi beaches for summer has collected 10 tonnes of rubbish.