We were thrilled to be back in person and feel the energy of the students in the classroom. Toronto District School Board teachers, you can book an online or in-person visit for free at uofttrashteam.ca/classroomvisit… U of T Trash Team 🦝

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!

This just in! Our final #KickingPlasticsButt poster, illustrated by Mira, is now hanging in the entryway of our local Patagonia. Come see this poster and the rest of our art, PLUS meet our team at our special event this Thursday evening. RSVP - …lasticsbuttaneveningwi.splashthat.com

#DATA TIME! Last summer our students monitored #litter in the #Toronto harbour using Seabins, LittaTraps and skimming by hand. For each method, we quantified & characterized to inform source reduction. Download the 2022 results and keep your eyes here all week for highlights.

The results are in! 📊 Seabins in PortsToronto’s Trash Trapping Program Network removed nearly 100,000 small pieces of #plasticpollution from the Toronto Harbour in 2022.

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

From the #data, our #TrashTraps were shown to be VERY good at collecting small #plastic items, including foam, hard fragments, fIlm and pre-production pellets. PortsToronto @TRCA_hq The Waterfront BIA @CityofToronto Swim Drink Fish Ocean Conservancy Seabin™ ENVIROPOD

Our top 10 large items collected by Seabins, LittaTraps & skimming revealed many items you'll recognize: #plastic fragments, #CigaretteButts, food packaging & other #SingleUsePlastics like bottles, caps + bags! PortsToronto Toronto and Region Conservation Authority The Waterfront BIA City of Toronto 🇨🇦 Swim Drink Fish

TRASH CAPTURE: Nearly 100,000 pieces of #PlasticPollution removed from the #TorontoHarbour in 2022. Here's what else was found | U of T Trash Team 🦝 cp24.com/news/nearly-10… via CP24

#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

We were extremely honoured to receive this award under the leadership of Chelsea Rochman Rafaela F. Gutierrez, PhD and Susan Debreceni (the real heroes are our volunteers and active community!). U of T Arts & Science University of Toronto EEB

One more weekend left to catch our #KickingPlasticsButt display in the windows of Patagonia on King West. It will then move on to Ripley's Aquarium of Canada and continue to spread awareness that #cigarettebutts are #plastic!

Cheer for U of T Trash Team 🦝! 🙌 A team of superheroes who use solution-based research to educate and run community programs which are all about waste impacts and reduction. Get involved to increase waste awareness to fight against plastic: uofttrashteam.ca

Aww, can raccoons blush? Thank you! We're just getting ready to lead a waterfront walk for the U of T Arts & Science Beatrice & Arthur Minden Symposium to talk about #floatable #plasticpollution and tomorrow we'll be doing a team cleanup! #ActONLitter

Have you spotted these on the sidewalk? When you do, scan the QR code and learn more about #TrappingTrash in the Toronto harbour, using trash traps like the @#LittaTrap. You can find them along Queens Quay! ENVIROPOD

Getting ready with our new cohort of our #FightingFloatablesTO summer field research assistants! In a few weeks you'll spot them along the waterfront tracking what our family of #trashtraps collect. PortsToronto Toronto and Region Conservation Authority Swim Drink Fish The Waterfront BIA Harbourfront Centre Outer Harbour Marina

This June 11 join @uofttrashteam dontmesswiththedon PortsToronto Toronto and Region Conservation Authority Swim Drink Fish to clean #TaylorCreek and prevent litter from travelling to the Don River & eventually the ocean. #FightingFloatablesTO #LastStopTheOcean @CECWeb Osprey Initiative uofttrashteam.ca/event/taylor-c…

Two new #trashtrapping WasteShark aquadrones (aka the Toronto Trash Bandits) are coming soon to Lake Ontario – and it’s not too late to help us name them! Submit your name ideas by June 23 here: bit.ly/45BA2sL

🦝🦝The Trash Bandits!!! Two new #trashtraps are coming soon, and they need some names. Share your name ideas by June 23: bit.ly/45BA2sL (should we submit Trash and Team??) PortsToronto Toronto and Region Conservation Authority The Waterfront BIA Swim Drink Fish Harbourfront Centre

Tune in to CBC Here and Now today ~4:07 pm to hear about our local work as part of the Toronto Inner Harbour Floatables Strategy and our collaboration with Commission for Environmental Cooperation on their captivating #LastStopTheOcean campaign (have you spotted a poster on the #TTC yet?) #FightingFloatablesTO