Giving New Life to Shoreline Litter
From plastic bottles to aluminum cans, food wrappers to plastic cutlery and the occasional pair of false teeth, we find a little bit of everything on shorelines across Canada. One important fact, however, remai...
Contest Winner Diverts Nearly 2,000 Cigarette Butts from Landfill
Cigarette butts are the most commonly found item on shoreline cleanups across Canada. In 2013 alone, over 300,000 were collected on shoreline cleanups from coast to coast. Rather than send them all off to landf...
Getting Butts Off Our Beaches with TerraCycle
TerraCycle and Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup, presented by Loblaw Companies Limited, began working together in 2012, and with the help of over 58,000 volunteers annually, have recycled over 460,000 cigarette...
Saving our Waters, One Butt at a Time
In 2012, the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup collected more than 419,000 cigarette butts from shorelines across Canada, over 25 per cent of which were diverted to TerraCycle's Cigarette Waste Brigade program.
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