Events

Take part in the world's largest cigarette butt cleanup, hosted by A Greener Future, with the aim to collect up to 1 million cigarette butts all in one day! Volunteers can pick up cigarette litter anywhere across the city, and then bring it to one of many drop-off locations throughout Toronto on April 1st fromContinue reading "Toronto Butt Blitz"

Meet Emily Chudnovsky, the talented artist behind Kicking Plastic's Butt! (and our Arts and Visual Communications Specialist). She'll talk about how cigarette butts are actually plastic and share her method of creating art from them. She'll be joined by Chelsea W, one of the campaign poster illustrators AND you can also catch a short video byContinue reading "Meet the Artist: Kicking Plastic’s Butt!"

Help clean the Don River in this annual event hosted by Don't Mess With the Don. While cleaning, drop by our table to chat waste literacy, and meet other local organizations who are working to keep our natural spaces clean and green.

Plastic In My Watershed! Participants will learn about plastic pollution in our watersheds and how our organization uses a solutions-based approach to research plastic pollution. In the first activity, participants will learn what a watershed is then explore the different sources and fate of plastics in our watershed using an interactive tabletop watershed model. InContinue reading "Science Rendezvous"

Join Don’t Mess with the Don, the U of T Trash Team, PortsToronto, Toronto and Region Conservation Authority and Swim Drink Fish to clean up the banks of Taylor Creek. Snacks, drinks and garbage tools will be provided. Pease bring sturdy footwear, long pants, hat, sunscreen and a reusable water bottle. The goal of thisContinue reading "Taylor Creek Clean Up"

Visit our Kicking Plastic's Butt! table during this wonderful community event hosted by Community Matters Toronto in the St. James Neighbourhood. Our table will share more about our pollution prevention project to raise awareness of and reduce cigarette butt litter.

Visit our Kicking Plastic’s Butt! table and learn all about our pollution prevention project to raise awareness of and reduce cigarette butt litter. We'll be there ready to answer all your questions and chat about all things plastic pollution!

On Saturday August 12, join us for a Trash Trap Dive, a one-of-a-kind opportunity to peek behind the scenes of this important work. You’ll have the unique opportunity to: Event details: This important work contributes to the Toronto Inner Harbour Floatables Strategy, a collaborative strategy to reduce plastic pollution and other floating litter in the harbour.Continue reading "Trash Trap Dive"

Visit our Kicking Plastic’s Butt! table and learn all about our pollution prevention project to raise awareness of and reduce cigarette butt litter. We’ll be there ready to answer all your questions and chat about all things plastic pollution!

Join us Thursday, September 14 for an evening of talks and displays from organizations with the Toronto Inner Harbour Floatables Strategy, a collaborative strategy to reduce plastic pollution and other floating litter in the harbour. Speakers will share the collective work they’re doing to reduce plastic pollution from entering our waterways through cleanup, scientific data collectionContinue reading "Fighting Floatables: Preventing Plastic Pollution in Lake Ontario"

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"