Turning Toronto Green

Thanks to Toronto Tidy Towns’ Refill not Landfill project, we’ll all be able to refill our water bottles in the near future at the Toronto Library or the Diggers Club

The aim of this year’s Tidy Towns project is to reduce the use of disposable plastic water bottles and to minimise their disposal in landfill. Toronto Tidy Towns has raised $5,000.00 for the manufacture and distribution to our local community of Toronto branded reusable, dishwasher safe, water bottles.

This project was funded through Toronto Workers Club, Toronto Diggers, Toronto Lions Club and EcoEdge. The project has also been supported by local organisations including Eco Springs Newcastle & The Hunter Water Purification and Filtration Systems which have donated two water filtration systems to Toronto. There’s more water outlets in the pipeline too that are bound to make a splash about town.

Tidy Town Triumphs

Congratulations to Coal Point Public School on winning the Tidy Town Schools Environmental Award for the dry creek bed project. Toronto Tidy Towns won a first place award for the Turning Toronto Green campaign, promoting plastic bag free shopping and were highly commended for the overall Tidy Town Award. The white reusable shopping bags are available for free from the Toronto library.

Toronto Tidy Towns

Toronto Tidy Towns has again entered into the 2009/2010 Keep Australia Beautiful Sustainable Communities Awards with Coal Point projects making a significant contribution in the application. The categories that were entered were:

• Wildlife Corridors & Habitats Conservation Award
• Coal Point Biodiversity Boosting, Sediment Stabilisation & Seagrass Monitoring Project – Stansfield Close and Carey Bay Wetlands projects.
• Schools Environment Award
• Coal Point Primary School
• Cultural Heritage Award           
• Lake Macquarie Light Rail, Onslow Road, Toronto
• Waste Management & Litter Reduction Award
• ‘Turning Toronto Green” – reducing the use of non-biodegradable plastic bags
• in Toronto.
• and Overall Tidy Town

Earlier this year Henry Wellsmore, came up with the idea of promoting Toronto through a campaign to promote the use of green bags and minimise the use of non-biodegradable plastic bags. The bags are similar to the familiar ‘Green Bags’ but they’re white, have no plastic gusset, retains their shape even after washing and are made  from recycled plastic bottles.

The Toronto Tidy Towns Turning Toronto Green campaign will be jointly launched by Ian Kiernan and Greg Piper MP at 11.00am on Thursday 27 August in Toronto Town Square. At 10.00am a main Street walk will occur to visit businesses and hand out the bags