Bringing Down The Trash

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MEDIA RELEASE: New calculations challenge incineration industry’s “green energy” claims A Greener City for All

MEDIA RELEASE: New calculations challenge incineration industry’s “green energy” claims.
By Emily Alfred, Toronto Environmental Alliance (TEA)

www.torontoenvironment.org/comparing_the_climate_impacts_of_incineration_vs_landfill?utm_campaign=june_2025_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=toenviro

The City of Toronto is seeking public input on its Long Term Waste Management Strategy, but they're considering bad solutions like ‘energy from waste’ incineration that will send us backwards in climate action, zero waste goals & put human health at risk

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Study participants were asked about the extent to which they separate recyclables. 53% report sorting
all or most of their recyclable waste. Conversely, 17% acknowledged not segregating any recyclable waste at all.

Full study available @
www.stjamestown.org/bringdowntrash/

Watch our full report launch event @ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih9IwtnlFOk

Produced by Fred Alvarado, Regent Park TV & Focus Media Group
Fred@regentpark.tv

Read full research report @ www.stjamestown.org/bringdowntrash/

Lead Researcher:
Lisa Kowalchuk, University of Guelph
Lkowalch@uoguelph.ca

Our research setting was the Toronto neighbourhood of St. James Town: A World Within a Block.

A unique characteristic of this culturally diverse neighbourhood is its population density, about ten times that of Toronto as a whole, making it the densest neighbourhood in Canada.

The City of Toronto is seeking public input for a new Long Term Waste Strategy:
Read more @
www.torontoenvironment.org/input_on_managing_torontos_waste_unfortunately_theyre_asking_the_wrong_questions?utm_campaign=incineration_survey_june_2025&utm_medium=email&utm_source=toenviro

💠 Thank-You Cabbagetown Neighbourhood Review for introducing to your readers our lead researcher Lisa Kowalchuk & her team's waste diversion study "Bringing Down The Trash". 💠
🔹️www.cabbagetownreview.blogspot.com/?m=1
🔹️Full report & fast facts @
www.stjamestown.org/bringdowntrash/#pop-id-4155

Contributing Author - Trisha Einmann, PhD Candidate in Sociology, University of Guelph

🌿 In their own words, a study participant...
Anonymous 🦋

Lisa Kowalchuk, Associate Professor
Dept Sociology & Anthropology

I have been a Professor of Sociology for 25 years & I’ve been teaching at the University of Guelph since 2004. I teach courses on gender & global inequality, social movements & social change in Latin America.

This report presents the findings of our study on the barriers & opportunities for household waste
reduction, which sought to understand the daily experiences, values & wishes of high-rise residents regarding household waste in two rental buildings in the Toronto neighbourhood of St. James Town.

Some results from the new study "Problems & Possibilities for Waste Diversion & Reduction in Rental High-Rises in St James Town", conducted by Lisa Kowalchuk of the University of Guelph, and St James Town Community Corner, 200 Wellesley East, Toronto.
Full report @
www.stjamestown.org/bringdowntrash

🌈 ♻️ We're proud to present "Bringing Down The Trash - Problems and Possibilities for Waste Diversion and Reduction in Rental High-Rises in St. James Town, Toronto" 🌿

www.stjamestown.org/bringdowntrash

Conducted by University of Guelph Sociologist Lisa Kowalchuk & St. James Town Community Corner.