Community Environment Days

The City of Toronto's Community Environment Days combine a number of different worthwhile initiatives into one event. They began last month and continue until the end of September, with each Ward getting their own day.

There are four main stuff-related activities to do:

• Buy stuff like recycling bins, green bins, water efficiency kits, and rain barrels.
• Get free stuff, like leaf compost and rain gauges. (Actually, that's it for the free stuff. Go leaf compost!)
• Get rid of stuff that would otherwise be garbage, like old computers, cell phones, hazardous waste, ink cartridges, plastic shopping bags (to be recycled), used tires (to be piled up in Dundas Square and lit on fire).
• Get rid of useful stuff you don't want anymore for Goodwill, like CDs, art supplies, books, clothes, sporting goods, etc.

Sure, these aren't the kind of "save the world" ideas that are going to, say, reduce our carbon emissions 90% below 1990 levels by 2030, but they're something. (As Al Gore would say, there's no silver bullet, there's just silver buckshot.)

Full details on the City's site.