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Category Archives: Research
Kicking Plastic’s Butt!
A campaign to end cigarette butt litter on Toronto’s waterfront.
What is Keeping Businesses in the GTA from Ditching Single-use Foodware?
Reflection on what we learned interviewing food service businesses in Toronto during the pandemic.
How Much Trash Can a Trash Trap Trap?
Reflecting on the International Trash Trap Network’s accomplishments, one year in
What we Learned by Counting our Household Waste
2022 Home Waste Audit Reflections
Plastiques – un cocktail chimique
La pollution plastique n’est pas seulement une affaire de particules mais aussi de produits chimiques !
Plastics – a Chemical CockTALE
Plastic pollution is more than particles – chemicals are in there too!
A Tale of Tagging Trash
Oh the places they’ll go!
I Don’t Eat Fish Guts, so do I Really Eat Microplastics?
Our study suggests yes, but not many.
The Collective Power of Trash Traps
These local solutions tackle global plastic pollution