Calling for litter action in Ontario!Read our press release calling for action.
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Experts Pat Barrett (l) and Sheila White lobby for action on litter.
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Sheila White addresses the media wearing her "Please Care, Do Not Litter" t-shirt with eyes on it to tell litterers they are being watched.
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Read Sheila's submission on new approaches to littering.
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Sheila White on litter prevention the focus of a short film documentary in 2017
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Global TV online seeks our expert's take on plastic in the oceans
Hamilton fines Good Samaritan $125 for cleaning up messy parking lot
Sheila White offers her "two-cents worth" on Radio NewsTalk1010
From the mayor on down, Toronto's talking about litter as snow melts
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(March 17, 2015) CFRB Newstalk1010's Jim Richards wanted our take on Mayor John Tory's comment that Toronto seems dirtier this year.We backed the mayor 100 per cent.
At left, hear the entire Showgram interview plus callers' opinions. |
National attention from Yahoo! Canada for litter prevention and Sheila White
A litter tax on smokers? Sheila White says 'no way'.
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(April 7, 2014) Much to the surprise of host Jim Richards on top-rated NewsTalk1010, Sheila White shoots down the idea of increasing the price of a pack of smokes to help the City of Toronto clean up after littering smokers. Hear the interview, at right.
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Pfizer Canada's television ad on the hot seat for image of cigarette butt littering
Sheila White keeps her elbows up in her discussion with feisty NewsTalk 1010 "Showgram" radio host Jim Richards about a national ad campaign that depicts a woman butting her cigarette on the steps of a school. Depictions of littering should be classified as offensive in advertising codes.
A big boost for litter prevention from CFRB Toronto NewsTalk 1010 on The Motts
Sheila White is a guest of Paul and Carol Mott, who agree wholeheartedly with her that littering is wrong. Hear what they have to say:
A deposit-return system for cigarette butts? Talk radio seeks our opinion.
Publisher Sheila White dishes out the latest on the tobacco litter, the tobacco industry, cigarette butt recycling and more
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Hear Sheila respond to questions from AM 570's Neil Adams in this interview from June 25, 2013, edited to about seven minutes.
At right and below, clips from Sheila's 10 minutes on Kitchener radio
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'Litter' voices can propel big change: Our message hits canada.com
Pushing Ontario leaders to take action on the neglected litter file ECO Office, Bay Street, Toronto
(April 11, 2013) Will the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario open his office doors to a full examination of littering in Ontario? Or will the matter get buried in the sand?
The answers will be known when Commissioner Gordon Miller issues his annual report, in which he must comment on our concerted drive to have Ontario look at the state of littering, take some responsibility and action. |
Your publisher speaks out in a letter to the Toronto Star |
Our campaign on litter before No Tobacco Day saw TV and radio coverage
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Group pushing the province to take action on cigarette litter
CityTV, CBC and others give our press conference their attention |
1 SMOKER = 1825 LITTERED CIGARETTE BUTTS A YEAR TORONTO (January 18, 2013) - Sheila White and Alex King, co-founders of the Litter Prevention Program, and Jay Reyes, of TerraCycle, a pioneering upcycling and recycling company in Ontario, came to Queen’s Park to display 54,750 of cigarette butts, the amount a one-pack-a-day smoker could litter over 30 years. Press Release |
We're getting good press. Read what influential newspapers are saying.
'Litter problem is getting worse,' group says
Antonella Artuso, Queen's Park Bureau Chief for the Toronto Sun, files an excellent story about our efforts.
Antonella Artuso, Queen's Park Bureau Chief for the Toronto Sun, files an excellent story about our efforts.
Scarborough resident talks trash on litter (December 18, 2012)
From the Toronto Observer, official newspaper of the highly rated Centennial College journalism program, read a great story by Shaun Thompson.
From the Toronto Observer, official newspaper of the highly rated Centennial College journalism program, read a great story by Shaun Thompson.
Radio has us on its radar too ... hear Sheila White tell it like it is on litter.
Listen to clips from Sheila's radio interview with Gary Doyle, AM570 Kitchener
Sheila talks with Jordi Morgan on Maritime Today, broadcast in Halifax, Moncton and Saint John
Below, Jennifer Lewington, wrote this article for The Globe & Mail in 2005 and gives "the dirt on litter" featuring us.
