MEDIA RELEASE
Monday, April 28, 2025
Hundreds pitch-in to fill 900 bags of garbage at record Earth Day Clean Up in Oakville
The 34th annual Earth Day Clean Up in Oakville on Saturday, April 26th was its most successful ever.
Seventy-two nature sites were cleaned up by more than 1,200 volunteers who pitched-in to fill 900 garbage bags with collected waste.
Site Coordinators make this event a guaranteed success thanks to their dedicated participation. Of the seventy-two nature sites, a record thirty-three were staffed by representatives of various local organizations while fifty-five individuals welcomed volunteers as Site Coordinators at the thirty-nine other nature sites. Several other local groups pitched-in as a team at various sites, too.
In reports received from Site Coordinators, there is less and less garbage being found in the nature sites being cleaned up year after year now in this campaign. Together with the year round efforts of Parks employees, Parks Ambassadors, dog walkers and trails walkers disgusted by strewn garbage, civic minded citizens and many others are now all together contributing to raising awareness about the benefits of non-littering and are maintaining the cleanliness of Oakville’s green spaces.
The event was sponsored by forty-four various organizations and primarily by the Town of Oakville’s Parks and Open Space Department, Halton Region Waste Management which provided for garbage bag collection right afterwards by Miller Waste, Film.ca Cinemas which provided free popcorn coupons for all volunteers, Panago Pizza on Neyagawa Boulevard which baked fifty pies enjoyed by clean up teams in north Oakville, and the Starbucks Coffee Company which provided a Traveller box of brewed coffee to forty-five various sites.
The annual Earth Day Clean Up has been organized since 1992 by the Oakville Community Centre for Peace, Ecology and Human Rights. For more information, please contact Executive Director Stephen Dankowich at info@oakvillepeacecentre.org or (905) 849-5501.