Events

Come swing by our table at this year’s EcoFair Toronto! Visit over 50 environmentally friendly businesses and organizations to discover how to make greener choices for your life, home, and community. 🗓️ Date: Nov 2, 2025 (Sunday) ⏰ Time: 11am - 4pm 📍 Location: Wychwood Barns (601 Christie St. Toronto, ON) 🙂It’s free! This event isContinue reading "EcoFair Toronto"

In this webinar hosted by the International Trash Trap Network, we will discuss the importance of trash trap cleanup data collection and reporting, with guest presenters sharing their experiences of using this data to inform local policy action to reduce plastic pollution.  Throughout the webinar there will be opportunities to ask questions and generate discussion.

Join our Pollution Prevention Project webinar in partnership with Partners in Project Green, a collaborator of the Toronto Inner Harbour Floatables Strategy. In Pursuit of Polystyrene: Preventing Polystyrene Foam Pollution in Lake Ontario is a multi-phase Pollution Prevention Project focused on addressing polystyrene foam pollution at its source. Key findings from the project will be presented, which explores the problemContinue reading "Webinar: In Pursuit of Polystyrene: Preventing Polystyrene Foam Pollution in Lake Ontario"

Learn how to do your best waste management… at home!Ever find yourself staring at your household waste, wondering if you can or can’t recycle something, which items belong in each bin and how you can reduce the waste you generate at home? This February, the popular University of Toronto Trash Team's Home Waste Audit returns and invitesContinue reading "Home Waste Audit"

Attention Teachers: Join this free webinar hosted by the Toronto District School Board! With Ontario’s new recycling program expanding what can go in the blue bin, it’s more important than ever to remember that the most impactful environmental action remains reducing waste before it reaches the bin. Join the TDSB EcoSchools team for this engagingContinue reading "Webinar: Waste Not Want Not: Reduce before Recycling"

Learn all about how trash traps can be used to engage, educate and empower local communities to take action on plastic pollution. In this webinar hosted by the International Trash Trap Network, we will discuss the importance of education and outreach for tackling plastic pollution and how trash traps can act as a centrepiece for connectingContinue reading "Using Trash Traps to Connect with your Community"

Join us for the University of Toronto Faculty of Arts & Science for a riveting exhibition featuring student research and projects across Arts & Science. Learn what salamander skin reveals about pollution, why meditation might transform your next museum visit and much more. We'll have researchers showcasing methods used in the Rochman Lab to study microplastics, andContinue reading "Brighter Futures: An exhibition of student excellence"

We're joining a virtual discussion on recycling in Ontario. Rein Maynard, a Fighting Floatables Research Assistant who is currently leading research on effective garbage bin design will share more about the types of waste we are finding in local waterways and how effective waste management strategies can work together to reduce what ends up asContinue reading "Earth Day Virtual Town Hall: Future of Recycling"

On Saturday May 9, join our Plastic Pellet Blitz to become a microplastic scientist for the day and learn standard protocols to monitor and clean up tiny plastics. The University of Toronto (U of T) Trash Team in celebrating the Provincial Day of Action on Litter, with a Microplastic Blitz! This community science cleanup provides an opportunity toContinue reading "Microplastic Blitz: A Community Science Cleanup"

As part of Toronto Climate Week, find members of our team at an info table during Love Your Lakes. We'll share more about our ongoing research, programming and actions to reduce plastic pollution in our local ecosystems.

On Saturday July 25, dive into our trash traps without taking a step in the lake to take a peek behind the scenes and learn how we characterize litter diverted by trash traps on the Toronto Waterfront. You’ll have the unique opportunity to: Event details: Cancellation policy:The event will run rain or shine, but willContinue reading "Trash Trap Dive"

Hosted by iGEM Toronto, this interdisciplinary event brings together researchers, students, community partners and organizations around the environmental and health implications of microplastic pollution. Expert speakers will translate current research to bridge scientific and community spheres while advancingContinue reading "U of T Microplastics Conference – iGEM"