Take nothing but photos, leave nothing but footprints. That's the message from the New Zealand Youth Hostels Association in encouraging track walkers to bring their rubbish out of the bush.
The YHA is printing plastic rubbish bags for the Department of Conservation to distribute to people going into the bush, hoping that it will help to minimise the amount of rubbish tarnishing this country's clean, green image.
YHA New Zealand hosts 430,000 overnight stays for visitors to New Zealand and 70,000 overnight stays for New Zealanders a year.
The bags will be distributed through DoC Centres and 57 YHA hostels nationwide.
Keeping bush clean
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