Events

Learn how to do your best waste management… at home! Ever find yourself staring at your waste, wondering what goes in what bin and what some strategies are to reduce waste at home? The popular University of Toronto Trash Team's Home Waste Audit returns and invites you to challenge yourself to reduce your waste as you increaseContinue reading "Home Waste Audit"

Drop by our table at this fair hosted by the Women's Healthy Environments Network. Guests will explore art & music, connecting with others around educational booths on environmental health as it intersects with racialization, gender and sex. You may register for one or both sessions (afternoon or evening).

Since 2017, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) has been raising awareness, supporting local action, and developing tools to address the problem of land-based marine litter in North America. During this webinar, the CEC will present tools available to help communities, cities, and organizations take action locally and raise public awareness about the journey ofContinue reading "Engaging Local Communities across North America to Reduce Marine Litter"

Emily Chudnovsky, detail of the felting process for "Unwoven Strands A Visual Study of Microfibers," 2023. Hart House's Talking Walls provides a venue for our artist-in-residence Emily Chudnovsky’s newest series of artworks; Felt One, Felt Two, and Felt Three, made using sheep’s wool, invasive grapevines, and microfibers. Microfibers are tiny strands of microplastic that often end up in waterways. Continue reading "Unwoven Strands: A Visual Study of Microfibers"

As part of the Floatable Waste Collaborative Action in Lake Ontario and Toronto’s Inner Harbour, this is one of a series of awareness and community science events aimed at categorizing waste collected from the waterfront. Learn more about the types and amount of floating plastic pollution we find in Lake Ontario! Swing by our tableContinue reading "Waste Categorization: Celebrate the Humber"

A webinar to showcase our research with Toronto restaurants and share strategies to shift from single-use foodware to reusables. Join a webinar hosted by the University of Toronto Trash Team in partnership with Toronto Environmental Alliance, Green Neighbours Network and Enviromentum to explore the insights from our door-to-door research conducted with hundreds of foodservice businessesContinue reading "Reusables in Restaurants"

On Saturday July 20, join our Trash Trap Dive for a one-of-a-kind opportunity to peek behind the scenes and learn how to characterize litter diverted by trash traps on the Toronto Waterfront. You’ll have the unique opportunity to: Event details:

On Saturday August 17, join our Plastic Pellet Blitz to become a community scientist and learn standard protocols to monitor and cleanup plastic pellets. Join our first-ever Plastic Pellet Blitz, a cleanup focused on a less familiar source of microplastic pollution called pre-production plastic pellets! Plastic pellets are the building blocks used to make everydayContinue reading "Plastic Pellet Blitz: A Community Science Event"

Celebrate the International Coastal Cleanup with the U of T Trash Team by joining one of our community cleanups. Hosted in neighbourhoods in and around the Toronto area, we’ll prevent litter in our watershed from entering Lake Ontario and its connected tributaries! Volunteers will collect data on the type and amount of litter collected, which contributes toContinue reading "Urban Litter Challenge"