Toronto Area Sustainable Neighbourhood Group News
This Clean Up
Australia Day, Sunday 6th March, from 9-11am the local waste
warriors will be hitting the roads with their gloves on and nifty-nabbers in
hand to clean up the rubbish generated by local fast food consumers.
The target
locations will be around McDonalds, The Greenway to Cook St, areas around
Renwick St and Day St, right down Cary St/Anzac parade/ Main Rd to Toronto
Lions Park.
Fast food waste
is generally located the distance away from the outlet it takes to consume the
product, unfortunately this is usually pretty close to the lake and any rubbish
not binned ends up in the storm-water system and then floating off into The Lake,
impacting on the bird and fish life.
The Fastfood
Tossers Can Be Binners campaign will be officially launched on Clean Up
Australia Day at McDonalds with a short ceremony at 9 am to recognize the
efforts to date including
- the commissioned artwork from Toronto High School Students which is currently being installed around the town centre to raise awareness,
- the months of monitoring and ‘cleaning up’ of the road from Toronto to Teralba to get some baseline data of the tossing habits of the fastfood consumers, and
- the negotiations with the local fast food outlets, all but one, who have been supportive of the Tossers can Be Binners initiative.
Everyone is welcome
to attend, there’ll be some gifts for those that give time, a few speeches, a
Clean Up and then an overwhelming sense of satisfaction. Bring a hat, good
shoes, some water to drink! Meet at Maccas at 9am.
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