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TREA’s charitable raffle starts August 12 and will end on October 8. The site will be active at this link: https://www.rafflebox.ca/raffle/trea. Get your tickets! The raffle draw date is October 10, and there will be one cash Grand Prize that is 50% of the total ticket revenue. Why? As a registered charity and not-for-profit, we often rely on…

Come get your compost on Compost Value Day Date of Event: Saturday, May 4, 2024 – 8:00 am – 1:00 pm North location and until12:00 noon South location Event Venue: Richmond North Office Centre (235 North Centre Rd.) and London Food Bank (926 Leathorne St.) While supplies last. Bring your own container if possible. Proceeds go to London…

TREA is pleased to be a part of Earthfest 2024’s planning committee this year – mark the date on your calendar – April 20. Organizing is now in the works!

  The federal government has opened public consultation on the creation of a Plastics Registry until February 13. The Registry will be used as a tool to monitor and to track plastic from the time it is produced to the end of use. Contribute at the link here.

London has begun its Green Bin program! Visit here if you need more information and tips on composting.

As we enter the final days of 2023, we want you to know TREA is still actively looking at ways to move forward and has some exciting plans for the new year. Although the pandemic is no longer dominating the headlines, its impacts are still being felt in many ways. TREA moved through early Covid-19…

TREA partnered with the Reimagine Institute for Community Sustainability to establish The Thing Library in London. The Thing Library will help Londoners build a more sustainable future by lending gardening tools, kitchen utensils, home renovation tools, and more. Why buy something you need only once, or once a year, when you can borrow it?  Better…

Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2021 TREA online auction before Christmas. Our many bidders in the auction helped TREA raise over $2,500. The 51 businesses who donated goods and services for the auction are listed below. Many thanks to all of them!   Anderson Craft Ales Blackfriars Bistro & Catering Canadian Tire…

TREA is excited to engage with the start-up of Reimagine’s Thing Library in September. Just like a library is a place where you can borrow books, a Thing Library (also known as a library of things or a tool library) is a place where you can borrow things. The library will include a variety of…

The City unveiled enclosed bike lockers at three locations on August 26 downtown to help provide cyclists a new secure space to park their bike – at the corner of Dundas and Wellington Street, the north end of Clarence Street (beside Victoria Park), and in the underground parking garage at the Covent Garden Market. At…