Our annual #HomeWasteAudit can have an impact, even from the comfort of your own home! Ludovic Hermabessiere shares his experience here. This #GivingTuesday, help us continue to increase our impact by donating to the U of T Trash Team. engage.utoronto.ca/site/SPageServ…

This week economies are negotiating the first ever #plastictreaty. We share a few thoughts - led by Eden Hataley and in collaboration with IISD. sdg.iisd.org/commentary/gue…

Thank you to all of our amazing volunteers and student interns. We could not do all we do without you!! You are our impact!!!!!

Having a great time learning about our #watershed with U of T Trash Team 🦝! We learned about the plastic that ends up in our lake and what we can do to prevent this incredibly harmful waste ending up in our watershed.

Thanks for having us today in your classroom to talk about watershed and plastic pollution.

What’s this??… Our resident artist Emily Chudnovsky is brewing up a local installation soon to be in the window of our local Patagonia. This art is made from a type of #plasticpollution. Can you guess which?? Patagonia

As the #InternationalTrashTrapNetwork grows, we are trying to harmonize our methods and make sure they work for a diversity of trash capture devices. This week, we are in Vietnam with MCD and Ocean Conservancy trying out our methods on their locally-made devices!

#SneakPeek. Ok everyone is so smart and figured it out! Yes, we're working on an art installation for #CigaretteButts at our local Patagonia on King St West! Drop by to learn more about this common source of #plasticpollution. #KickingPlasticsButt uofttrashteam.ca/cigarettebutts/

Have you heard? Our #KickingPlasticsButt window display is Patagonia on #KingWest in #Toronto (through January)! Featuring #CigaretteButt sculpture by resident artist Emily, illustration by vols Dr. Alice (Xia) Zhu, Chelsea & Mira, w/ video from @thewaterbros uofttrashteam.ca/cigarettebutts/

A waste picker MNCR - Movimento Nacional de Catadores de Mat. Rec and other popular groups hand over the presidential sash to the new president of Brazil Lula. It couldn’t be more symbolic and beautiful than that!

Cigarette butts are #plasticpollution, and most people don't know that. We found that increasing awareness about this little fun fact, helped us in KickingPlastic'sButt!

Total waste diverted from all methods was 96,208 pieces of litter & 118 kg of #anthropogenic debris. By weight, that's nearly 40,000 #SingleUse plastic spoons (or ~17 #raccoons). 🦝 PortsToronto @TRCA_hq The Waterfront BIA @CityofToronto Swim Drink Fish Ocean Conservancy

Let's compare our top 10 large items collected by Seabins, LittaTraps & skimming (oh my!). You'll notice some overlap and a lot of #singleuse. You might also spot an unusual term, #fatberg (more on that soon). PortsToronto @TRCA_hq The Waterfront BIA @CityofToronto Swim Drink Fish

We've heard about them before but last summer we got to see a #fatberg up close and personal! Among our #Seabin top 10 items, these rock-like masses form in the sewer when items that shouldn't be flushed end up combining with oil and grease. Yuck! Remember, only flush the 3 Ps.

#MeetTheTeam, check out our brilliant 2022 Fighting Floatables research assistants: Yuying, Mary, Ishani, Katerina, Thy, Ashlyn & Zoë, what a crew! They were led by Chelsea Rochman & Rafaela F. Gutierrez, PhD and we're excited to see where they go next. University of Toronto EEB U of T Arts & Science School of Cities

In an effort to remove harmful waste from Toronto’s harbour, 92,891 small pieces of plastic pollution were removed over the course of four months by PortsToronto and U of T Trash Team 🦝. Read more here: nowtoronto.com/news/nearly-10…

What does a day in the field look like for our #FightingFloatables team? First they arrive to the waterfront to empty out #TrashTraps or skim the water, then weigh all debris before counting + categorizing to record #data (and we looove data!). University of Toronto EEB U of T Arts & Science School of Cities

Come find our Kicking Plastic's Butt! team at next week's Cultural Collage in the St. James Town Neighbourhood, see you next week! While there, keep an eye out for receptacles for #CigaretteButt recycling. Wed June 28, 2-7 pm at 260 Wellesley St East. uofttrashteam.ca/cigarettebutts/

We came, we saw, we ended early due to ⛈️ but we had a fantastic start to today's Trash Trap Dive! Thanks to everyone who showed up to count and categorize!!! What an amazing community we have. #LastStopTheOcean #FightingFloatablesTO

Applications close Wed Sept 27 for U of T Arts & Science students interested in our Waste Literacy Instructor position. Instructors facilitate 1 of 4 lesson plans to grade 5 classrooms through a mix of hands-on & discussion-based programming, all about #plastic! uofttrashteam.ca/join/