FORT FRANCES – May 14 is Ontario’s Day of Action on Litter, and this border town is looking for a few good citizens to join the fight.
Organizations, businesses, groups and individual are invited to help Clean the Fort that day.
Clean the Fort is a local initiative of the Town of Fort Frances through its municipal clerk and operations manager.
The town is “asking groups to kind of sponsor areas and get those areas cleaned up,” deputy clerk Chelsea Greig told Newswatch.
Greig, town clerk Gabrielle Lecuyer and interim operations manager Craig Miller are organizing the day for the town.
A registration page for Clean the Fort has been set up at the town’s website.
Meanwhile, the Municipality of Sioux Lookout is encouraging its residents to participate in the special day by picking up garbage bags at the municipal recreation centre on King Street and picking up litter.
To find out what areas of Sioux Lookout need the most help, call the recreation centre at 807-737-1994.
Filled bags can be dropped off for collection on May 14 at the recreation centre, public works on 5th Avenue and Sioux Lookout’s Travel Information Centre on First Avenue.
Since the first provincial Day of Action on Litter was in May 2020, the Ontario government has engaged millions of people on social media annually and monitored cleanups across the province.
The day is designed to educate and build awareness on litter’s environmental impact and encourage people to strive for litter-free public spaces.
Litter “can spill into our waterways and break down into microplastics in the environment – harming wildlife and damaging entire ecosystems,” the province’s environment ministry said in a recent statement.
“Stakeholders have played a big role in organizing and promoting past Day of Action on Litter initiatives, and we are counting on your continued support to make the 2024 Day of Action on Litter an even bigger success,” the ministry’s statement continued.
