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07/15/2024 | Love Your Lakes: Litter Cleans Up As A Catalyst For Change | LookLocal

07/10/2024 | Local environmental groups lead Burlington Beach cleanup | Burlington Today

07/05/2024 | A Greener Future invites local residents to collect litter at Burlington Beach | Burlington Today

05/08/2024 | Episode 3: Rochelle Byrne | Green Hearts In Action Podcast

04/26/2024 |Volunteers pitched in for cigarette butt blitz across Hamilton | The Bay Observer

04/25/2024 | Join the Hamilton Butt Blitz this Friday: An estimated 50,000 cigarette butts will be collected | The Hamilton Spectator

04/21/2024 | ‘Butt Blitz:’ Volunteers clean up Cobourg’s waterfront | Global News

04/20/2024 | Épisode du samedi 20 avril 2024 |ICI Télé

04/20/2024 | Earth Day: Planet vs. Plastics, Environmental Clean Ups in Toronto | CTV News @ 13:48

16/04/2024 | No butts about it — cleaning up cigarette litter good for wildlife and people | CityTV News London

04/12/2024 | Montreal's Butt Blitz is fighting climate change one cigarette butt at a time | Let’s go With Sabrina Marandola | CBC Listen

04/07/2024 | Celebrations and clean-ups for Earth Day 2024 in Peterborough and the Kawarthas | Kawartha Now

03/28/2024 | Owen Sound Waste Watchers target cigarette butts | CKNX Newstoday.ca

03/26/2024 | Owen Sound Waste Watchers Participating in National 'Butt Blitz' in April | The Owen Sound Current

03/26/2024 | Green Team encourages residents to join month-long Butt Blitz | Brant Beacon

03/19/2014 |Warmer weather draws people and animals out to parks, where litter abounds | The Toronto Observer

03/07/2024 | 407 ETR is celebrating its new sponsorship with Toronto and Region Conservation Authority at the Sugarbush Maple Syrup Festival |407 ETR News Release

02/22/2024 | 407 International Reports 2023 Results | 407 ETR News Release

10/19/2023 | Six Fleming College Alumni Nominated for the 2023 Premier’s Awards | PTBO Canada

10/08/2023 | Nurdle Hunters comb Burlington Beach for pesky pellets | Burlington Today

09/27/2023 | Belleville’s Own: A Greener Future Starts Here | The Intelligencer

08/28/2023 | York Region Program Challenges Residents to Watch Their Waste | Newmarket Today

07/02/2023 | Volunteers sought for Cobourg Beach 'Butt Blitz' July 4 | Northumberland News

05/10/2023 | Cleanup crew leaves NOTL beach a little bit brighter | Niagara Now

04/12/2023 | Volunteers needed for Brantford Butt Blitz | The Expositor

04/01/2023 | Staggering amount of cigarette butts collected in Toronto | City News

03/29/2023 |Canadians Unite to Nip Cigarette Litter in the “Butt” for A Greener Future’s Annual Cleanup and Recycle Rally | GTA Weekly

03/28/2023 | GTA non-profit sets out to pick up 1M cigarette butts in one day | Toronto.com

03/17/2023 | Série Grands Lacs : Le lac Ontario, victime de son succès | Francopresse

03/16/2023 | Butt Blitz Toronto | Things to Know T.O.

11/13/2022 | No butts about it — A Greener Future cleaning up smokers’ mess |St. Catharines Standard

06/01/2022 | How This Industry Giant is Striving for Sustainability | National Post

05/25/2022 | Volunteer Project to Clean the Bruce Trail is Growing | Wiarton Echo

04/26/2022 | “Butt Blitz” Collecting Discarded Cigarettes for Recycling |Intelligencer

04/29/2022 | Water Rangers Testing Comes to Schools | Canadian Teacher Magazine

01/28/2022 | For the Love of Water | Canadian Teacher Magazine

19/07/2021 | Peel artists transform litter from Lake Ontario into artwork | Mississauga.com

05/07/2021 | Increase in litter washing up on Canadian shorelines following the pandemic | Excalibur

03/07/2021 | Love Your Lake program continues to seek greener future through cleanups | County Live

12/04/2021 | 10 unique and unusual volunteer opportunities in Toronto right now | BlogTO

17/04/2021 | Do your part to preserve the environment | CTV News: Things to know T.O.

21/04/2021 | Butt Blitz 2021 wants one million cigarette butts in one month | Toronto Star

17/04/2021 | CBC Our Toronto | CBC

16/04/2021 | New documentary reveals plastic pollution problem in Lake Ontario | Cottage Life

30/03/2021 | Shoreline: The Paddle Against Plastic | Surf The Greats

29/03/2021 | New documentary sheds light on plastic pollution in Lake Ontario | CTV News

06/03/2021 | Shoreline: The Paddle Against Plastic, A documentary by A Greener Future | Stand Up Journal

04/03/2021 | Paddleboard trip along Lake Ontario turned into a documentary film by A Greener Future | Beach Metro News

29/12/2020 | Rochelle Byrne on her 430KM SUPing trip through Lake Ontario and her work to clean the shores | Learn With Lels Podcast

04/12/2020 | Litter Cleanups & Nonprofit Life with Rochelle Byrne | Inner Circle Podcast

23/06/2019 | Ontario Lieutenant Governor participates in cleanup at Wellington Rotary Beach | InQuinte

24/06/2019 | Lt-Gov helps collect ‘nurdles’ and more at Wellington beach clean-up | County Live

30/04/2019 | 4.5 Trillion Cigarette Butts — the Biggest Man-Made Ocean Contaminant — Are Littered Each Year | People Magazine

29/04/2019 | Volunteers collect 37,052 cigarette butts during Hamilton cleanup event | The Hamilton Spectator

27/04/2019 | Butt Blitz aims to clean up cigarette butts off the ground | CHCH

27/04/2019 | Hamilton’s one-day ‘Butt Blitz’ takes 37,000 cigarette remains off city streets | Global News

15/04/2019 | City wants you to stop tossing your cigarette butts on the street | CBC

05/05/2018 | Volunteers in the Okanagan working to clean up cigarette butt litter today | Kelowna Now

03/05/2018 | Blitz to pick up cigarette butts | Salmon Arm Observer

29/04/2018 | How Butt Blitz aims to Give Barrie a greener future | Simcoe.com