ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE, DON’T MESS WITH THE DON
Join Environmental Defence and Don’t Mess with the Don on May 12 to Witness Beverage Container Haul from 2026 Don River Litter Cleanups
Photo opportunity: Kayaking cleanup at Biidaasige Park on Ontario’s Day of Action on Litter to demonstrate need for deposit-return program to prevent waste and litter
Toronto | Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, and the traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat – In honour of Ontario’s Day of Action on Litter, Environmental Defence and Don’t Mess with the Don are organizing a beverage container litter pickup in the Don River at Biidaasige Park in downtown Toronto.
WHAT: Kayaking cleanup of the mouth of the Don River to highlight the problem of beverage container litter in one of Toronto’s most important renaturalization sites.
WHEN: Tuesday, May 12 (Ontario Day of Action on Litter)
WHERE: Biidaasige Park, at the mouth of Toronto’s Don River
Schedule:
10:30 am – meet at Old Fire Hall on Commissioners St. at Munition St. in Biidaasige
10:35 to 11:00 am – witness the kayakers completing a river litter pickup and returning to the kayak landing spot (at the river bend south of the Old Fire Hall)
11:15 am – comments from a member of Toronto City Council (TBD); and spokespeople from Don’t Mess with the Don and Environmental Defence to present findings from 2026 litter cleanups along the Don River and highlight how an expansion of Ontario’s deposit-return program is key to litter prevention.
ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE (environmentaldefence.ca): Environmental Defence is a leading Canadian environmental advocacy organization that works with government, industry and individuals to defend clean water, a safe climate and healthy communities.
DON’T MESS WITH THE DON is an award-winning environmental grassroots Canadian charity that delivers community programming igniting people’s passion for stewarding our planet.
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For more information or to request an interview, please contact:
Mira Merchant, Environmental Defence, media@environmentaldefence.ca
For communication or questions on day of event, please call: 647-482-1651
