Do your part in creating a cleaner, greener and more liveable Toronto. What better way to live green than to attend a Community Environment Day event hosted by your local Councillor.

Bring us your unwanted, used and unused household items and you will help reduce emissions, protect our climate, and clean our air:

• Extend the life of a product by offering it to someone for reuse.
• Reduce the amount of waste going to landfill and ensure that it is properly recycled.
• Ensure that hazardous waste materials are disposed of safely.

Images: City of Toronto

Items that we will take at the event:

• Small household items like dishes and ornaments will go to Goodwill, along with books, linens and clothing.
• Cell phones, computers, monitors, printers and fax machines to be properly recycled.
• Art supplies such as pencils, markers, crayons, yarn and fabric, as well as used buttons, costume jewellery and dress-up clothing will be donated to ArtsJunktion – a Toronto District School Board warehouse for teachers – and reused by creative young minds.
• Household hazardous waste such as, leftover cleaning supplies and solvents, motor oil, paint, old and unused medication, mercury thermometers/thermostats and pesticides will be recycled or disposed of safely.
• Use tires (off the rim and limit of 5).

What you can take home:

• Green bins and kitchen containers are available for purchase, for exchange if you bring your broken ones or for free to new residents (with proper proof of new residency within the past 90 days and identification).
• Water efficiency tools such as, rain barrels and indoor kits, will be for sale.
• The giant pile of FREE leaf compost! Bring your own containers and shovels and haul some of it away to spruce up your lawn, garden and flower beds (1 cubic metre per household).

Check out the other areas of this 2009 Community Environment Days website for a complete event schedule and detailed list of everything you can take to and get from your event.

All the Community Environment Days need is you. So hit your closets, basements, attics and garages for all the goods you can spare and then get out to your local event (or any event across the city that you’d like to attend).