Join us in the community!

We host and participate in a variety of events throughout the year, from community cleanups, to presentations, workshops and info tables.

We look forward to meeting you! 

  • Unwoven Strands: A Visual Study of Microfibers

    Hart House 7 Hart House Cir, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    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"

  • Earth Day Cleanup

    ET Seton Park 73 Thorncliffe Park Dr, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • Taylor Creek Cleanup

    Taylor Creek at Cullen Bryant Park 50 Barbara Crescent, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • Reusables in Restaurants

    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"

  • Today’s Catch: Trash Trap Dive

    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:

  • Plastic Pellet Blitz: A Community Science Event

    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"

  • Urban Litter Challenge

    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"