A Greener Future

We bring together a community of volunteers to learn, connect, and take action through litter clean ups 🌏

📍Great Lakes Region 🌊

[A Greener Future @aGreenerFuture]

🌍🚬 Vancouver joins the UNSMOKE Butt Blitz on #WorldCleanupDay (Sept 20)! Help A Greener Future tackle toxic cigarette litter + reach 1M butts collected & recycled across Canada.

👉 https://t.co/ilLkBBfmIV

#Vancity #Vancouver #yvr #vancitybuzz @VancityReynolds

[UnSmoke_CA @UnSmoke_CA]

On World Cleanup Day (September 20th), Unsmoke is hosting Canada's largest cigarette litter cleanup in 3 cities!

Join us in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver to participate and help clean up your city 🧹

📍 Toronto: Harbourfront Center, 10:00am-2:00pm
📍 Montreal: Place Émilie-Gamelin, 10:00am-2:00pm
📍 Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 10:00am-2:00pm

Learn more at https://t.co/ofGJhWzXi7

@aGreenerFuture

[U of T Trash Team 🦝 @UofTTrashTeam]

Amazing turnout and finds at our Trash Trap Dive! 97 large items across three Seabins and about 300 small plastic pieces in just one of them! Top items included #StyroFoam, #CigaretteButts, and #FoodWrappers. #FightingFloatablesTO #PlasticPollution #LakeOntario

[U of T Trash Team 🦝 @UofTTrashTeam]

🌊🦝Dive in Sat July 5 for a unique opportunity to participate in #TrashTrapping! Learn how our researchers divert litter from Lake Ontario w/ a family of trash traps & meet #FightingFloatablesTO organizations making a difference on our waterfront! RSVP https://t.co/b5CSdCrBSM

[U of T Trash Team 🦝 @UofTTrashTeam]

🌊Curious how we track what #TrashTraps collect? Join our researchers & #FightingFloatablesTO partners on Sat July 5 for a one-of-a-kind opportunity to participate in #TrashTrapping and prevent litter from reaching Lake Ontario! https://t.co/b5CSdCrBSM

[U of T Trash Team 🦝 @UofTTrashTeam]

Happy #WorldEnvironmentDay! Last weekend we were invited to join an adventurous kayak cleanup with @dontmesswthedon at Cherry Beach and it was QUITE a day! Read all about it. @UofTArtSci #BeatPlasticPollution https://t.co/R53xrP05Qi

[A Greener Future @aGreenerFuture]

In May, 231 incredible volunteers helped us collect a total of 110,865 pieces of litter along Lake Ontario. That’s an average of ~3,695 pieces of litter per day!
Join us at an upcoming event in June to be a part of the impact: https://t.co/lcd4Z6n9kI

[A Greener Future @aGreenerFuture]

See the impact you’re helping us create! 🌟
Discover cumulative data tracking all the trash our volunteers help us divert from Lake Ontario throughout the summer, plus the top items we’ve collected at cleanups.

View our new dashboard: https://t.co/mVXxegEZbU

[A Greener Future @aGreenerFuture]

Yesterday, we celebrated the Provincial Day of Action on Litter with cleanups in Hamilton, Mississauga, Toronto, and Pickering! Thank you to our volunteers who joined us even with a little rain. #ActONlitter

[U of T Trash Team 🦝 @UofTTrashTeam]

🙌Happy Day of Action on Litter! We celebrated w/ #PlasticPelletBlitz at Sir Casimir Gzwoski Park Beach & removed 2,468 plastic pellets from 29 small quadrats. These efforts would represent >700,000 pellets if scaled across the full beach. #FightingFloatablesTO #ActONLitter

[A Greener Future @aGreenerFuture]

A HUGE thank you to every single volunteer who joined the UNSMOKE Butt Blitz this April! 🙌 Thanks to your hard work, we collected a 282,216 cigarette butts!

See you again for the next UNSMOKE Butt Blitz in September!

[A Greener Future @aGreenerFuture]

Lost & Found (and Littered): 🧸 Click through a few of the cute (and sometimes strange) items our volunteers have discovered during park and beach cleanups.

Join our next cleanup and help us collect and properly dispose of these items: https://t.co/gwPBp3YfKI

#ParkCleanup

[A Greener Future @aGreenerFuture]

Thank you to our volunteers for a successful UNSMOKE Butt Blitz at Langford Station last week! They collected over 7,000 cigarette butts, contributing to our current total of 175,781 butts since the beginning of April! https://t.co/s00AFYRhW6

[A Greener Future @aGreenerFuture]

Love Your Lakes is BACK for Spring & Summer 2025! ☀️ Join us for our official launch at Queen's Royal Park this Saturday, May 3rd, as we dive into a summer of lake protection! Find more info about this Saturday's launch and all our upcoming May events 👉 https://t.co/E02Lu6dsdb

[Kelsey Harvey, PhD (she/her) @KelseyAHarvey]

Researchers at McMaster University, St. Thomas University, and Cape Breton University are looking for Canadian adults who participate in plogging or pliking to volunteer for a study on their plogging/pliking experiences.

[C-Tow @CTowmarine]

🌎Happy Earth Day from C-Tow! 🌎

We are proud to be partnered with @aGreenerFuture and actively making a difference across our beautiful Canadian waters!

[A Greener Future @aGreenerFuture]

Last week, we had 15 volunteers at our UNSMOKE Butt Blitz in Montreal. Thanks to our volunteers, we've cleaned up over 48,000 cigarette butts🚬 in cities across Canada!! Join us for upcoming events this week 👉https://t.co/IEnTuxPfpl

[CityNews Montreal @CityNewsMTL]

#WATCH: Volunteers unite for the sixth annual UNSMOKE Butt Blitz cleanup, starting in Montreal's Downtown area.

READ: https://t.co/MD9lSRPe3n

[A Greener Future @aGreenerFuture]

Week 2 of the #UNSMOKEButtBlitz: 34,433 butts collected by 63 volunteers across 4 locations! Join us for the rest of April to make an even bigger impact. Learn more & get involved https://t.co/HDr5hT5WUV

#AGreenerFuture #EnvironmentalAction #Volunteer

[A Greener Future @aGreenerFuture]

🤯 Canada sees 8,000 TONNES of cigarette litter per year - heavier than an elephant! The UNSMOKE Butt Blitz is tackling this very problem. Join us in April to reduce the impact of cigarette litter in Canada. https://t.co/rt5KtkXs6n

[A Greener Future @aGreenerFuture]

Canada's BIGGEST cigarette cleanup is happening NOW! Volunteer this April at an UNSMOKE Butt Blitz event and help us remove 1 MILLION pieces of cigarette litter, one butt at a time. Find an event near you and be a part of something BIG! https://t.co/IEnTuxPfpl

[insauga @insauga]

World’s largest cigarette cleanup coming to Ontario communities this month https://t.co/1MoumhlFWS