Join our team in the community! We host and participate in a variety of events, from community cleanups, eco-fairs, public presentations and everything in-between.
Interested in bringing the U of T Trash Team to your next community event? Contact us.
Coming up:
- Saturday September 19 at 10 am – 2 pm EDT: Our Urban Litter Challenge returns! Arrive anytime between 10am and 2pm (to allow us to maintain social distancing.
- Here is a list of the locations where we will be holding mini-cleanups all across the city of Toronto:
- Summerlea Park – Register here
- Rennie Park – Register here
- Coronation Park – Register here
- Trinity Bellwoods – Register here
- Christie Pits – Register here
- Queen’s Park – Register here
- Barbara Hall Park – Register here
- Corktown Commons – Register here
- Monarch Park – Register here
- Headwaters Community Park (Richmond Hill) – Register here
- Rotary Park (Ajax) – Register here
- Here is a list of the locations where we will be holding mini-cleanups all across the city of Toronto:
Past Events:
2020
- Wednesday August 12 at 2 pm EDT: Upcycled Bird Feeder Workshop with Koffler Scientific Reserve (View recording)
- Saturday July 18 at 5 pm EDT: Microplastic Madness: Screening and Community Conversation (View recording)
- Tuesday July 7 – Tuesday August 4: Home Waste Audit: Join our team for 4-week home waste audit with 2 webinars (Tues July 7/Aug 18 at 7 pm EDT).
- Tuesdays from April 21 through May 19 at 2 pm EDT: Litter-ature for Waste Litter-acy
- Tuesday May 12 at 1 pm EDT: Ontario Day of Action on Litter Webinar with the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup
- Saturday March 7, 11 am – 2 pm EDT at Evergreen Brickworks: Learn about sources of pollution with our interactive watershed demonstration at this year’s Waterfront Toronto Science Fair.
2019
- Sunday November 3: Don Mouth Naturalization Tour and Community Engagement Event – SETAC North America Annual Meeting).
- Monday September 23 at 7 pm (Museum of Contemporary Art): PhD student Alice (Xia) Zhu presents ‘From the Bay Area to the Arctic‘ as part of Shezad Dawood’s exhibition Leviathan.
- Saturday September 21 at 10 am (Hart House Circle, St. George Campus): Join our inaugural Urban Litter Challenge to clean the neighbourhood & protect our watershed.
- Thursday September 19 at 7 pm (Tranzac Club): Nerd Nite Toronto kicks off their 10th season with a talk from PhD student, Bonnie Hamilton.
- Tuesday, September 17 at 6 pm (Gerstein Library – Alice Moulton Room): Tiny Plastics: Big Problems panel discussion with students and researchers from the U of T Trash Team.
- June 8th and 9th: Rouge Valley Eco Valley Exploration event. Explore the Rouge Valley and stop by our table to learn about the impact of microplastics in our environment.
- May 5th – Annual Cleanup the Don in collaboration with TRCA’s Paddle the Don.
