Events

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 categorizingContinue 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 inContinue reading "Urban Litter Challenge"

This webinar series highlights a selection of our Pollution Prevention Projects – aimed at tackling plastic pollution in the environment, one source at a time! Our Pollution Prevention Projects focus on sourcesContinue reading "Pollution Prevention Project Webinar Series"

Swing by our table and talk aobut plastic pollution during this event hosted by Toronto and Region Conservation Authority as part of the Floatable Waste Collaborative Action in Lake Ontario andContinue reading "Trick-or-Trade: Halloween Costume Swap"

Join us for the premiere of Life of a Pellet, a stop motion short film exploring pre-production plastic pellet pollution. Made entirely of plastic trash and real plastic pellets, Life of aContinue reading "Life of a Pellet: Plastic Pollution Short Film & Mixer"

Come swing by our table at this year’s EcoFair Toronto! 🌱 The EcoFair showcases environmental non-profits and eco-friendly businesses to celebrate their success and inspire everyone to join them inContinue reading "EcoFair Toronto"

Join us at Waste & Recycling Expo Canada. Eden Hataley presents on plastic pollution with an exploration of the diverse tools necessary to address it. We also have student researchContinue reading "Canadian Waste & Recycling Expo"