PRESS RELEASE: Thousands of microplastics found polluting Lake Ontario during "nurdle hunts"
TORONTO, ON: Participating in the Great Global Nurdle Hunt, A Greener Future coordinated eight shoreline cleanups throughout the month of October to gather data on microplastic pollution in Lake Ontario. With the support of 47 local volunteers, a total of 9,789 nurdles were collected from the Lake Ontario shoreline.
PRESS RELEASE: CLOSE TO 1 MILLION CIGARETTE BUTTS PICKED UP ACROSS CANADA FOR EARTH MONTH
OSHAWA, ON – The Butt Blitz, usually an annual one-day event but was adapted to suit pandemic conditions, is the biggest cigarette cleanup in Canada. In honour of Earth Month, 160 volunteers across 25 different cities picked up 825,796 cigarette butts across Canada.