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RebutRécup: saving furniture from landfill
October 9, 2023 - La Presse
Street furniture makes a charity happy
August 13, 2023 - Journal de Montréal
Furniture recovery brigade in Montreal: the RebutRécup initiative
July 31, 2023 - Furniture recovery brigade in Montreal: the RebutRécup initiative - QUB Radio
CTV | Trash2Treasure cleaning up Moving Day Waste
April 30, 2023 - Trash2Treasure cleaning up Moving Day Waste
Vacating your Milton Park apartment? There's an alternative to dumping your stuff on the curb
April 24, 2023 - It's spring in Milton Park, just east of McGill University, and as the semester winds down, students vacating the neighbourhood's rowhouses and mid-rise brick buildings have begun clearing out their apartments.
A solidarity furniture drive in the Milton-Parc neighbourhood
April 19, 2023 - For the sixth consecutive year, the Society for Environmental Action, Education and Awareness of Montreal (SAESEM) is organizing a collection of unused furniture in the Milton-Parc neighbourhood of Montreal, through its RebutRécup service. This collection will take place from April 24 to May 1, in collaboration with the Student's Society of McGill University (SSMU).
Télé-Québec talks about Mégot Zéro
February 14, 2023 - Cigarette butts make up 30% of the litter on the ground in cities. Small" litter that represents an underestimated form of plastic pollution. The Butt Zero program addresses this by raising awareness, installing ashtrays, and collecting and recycling butts.
The environmental impact of cigarette butts
January 19, 2023 - Florence-Léa Siry was inspired by the "Quit to win" challenge, which starts on February 6 and ends on March 19, to tell us about the impact of cigarette butts.
Retrospective: the four new murals in Ville-Marie
January 4, 2023 -Four new murals, funded in part by the City of Montreal's Mural Art Program or by the Borough of Ville-Marie's Cultural Initiatives Support Program, were added to the borough in 2022. Here is a retrospective.
5000×500 Challenge in LaSalle: a great hunt for cigarette butts for the Saint-Laurent!
September 1, 2022 -Rising in the Great Lakes and flowing into the Atlantic Ocean, the St. Lawrence River is one of the jewels of the borough of LaSalle since its establishment. If cigarette butts are found there, this pollution will end up in the ocean...
Cigarette butt hunting instead of butterfly hunting for young people at Rapides Park in LaSalle?
August 11, 2022 - One organization has made it its mission, in partnership with the student union, to save as much furniture as possible. "We go on a tour with an electric van to pick up reusable furniture and household items by appointment or on the sidewalk," explained the spokesperson for the ...
Students leave a mess behind them
May 2, 2022 - One organization has made it its mission, in partnership with the student union, to save as much furniture as possible. "We go on a tour with an electric van to pick up reusable furniture and household items by appointment or on the sidewalk," explained the spokesperson for the ...
Ecology and solidarity
June 8, 2021 - Do you know RebutRécup? Christophe Derrien, general manager of SAESEM presented us this program which recovers objects and furniture to redistribute them to people in need. All this in order to meet environmental and social objectives simultaneously.
Volunteers pick up 30,000 cigarette butts in Verdun
September 4, 2019 - For the next edition, the organizer would like to sell reusable ashtrays to smokers, at a low cost, in team with Mégot Zéro (a program that aims to implant ashtrays in private and public areas), in order to not only raise their awareness, but also to offer them another option than leaving cigarettes on the ground.
Young people from Matane discouraged by cigarette butts after picking up a ton of garbage
August 27, 2019.During the waste collection supervised by the Carrefour jeunesse-emploi (CJE) on the Matane River, one waste particularly discouraged the participants, unable to overcome it and surprised by the extent of this invisible pollution: cigarette butts.
Montreal launches campaign aimed at 'buttheads'
May 17, 2019. The butts make up about a third of all litter on city streets and are also a threat to the environment. Since 2016, Montreal has placed over 600 ashtrays on poles around the city.
Recycling butts and raising awareness in effort to clean up
May 17, 2019 Through an awareness campaign, the City of Montreal wants to change the habits of smokers who throw their cigarette butts in public places.
City of Montreal makes new push to discourage 'buttheads'
May 17, 2019 A new campaign is encouraging smokers to pick up after themselves, so that the city doesn't have to foot the cleanup bill for the butts they leave behind.
Trash2Treasure among the 20 winners of the 6th edition of the Novae Awards for Social Innovation
May 7, 2019. The Trash2Treasure project won a Novae award and is on the list of the 20 best impact projects in Quebec this year, alongside organizations such as ALTE Coopérative, YUL Aéroport International Montréal-Trudeau, Arrondissement de Rosemont - La Petite-Patrie , Caisse d'économie solidaire Desjardins , Cascades, CREDDO, Espace d'Initiatives Sociales et Economiques, École Louis-Joseph-Papineau, iA Groupe financier (Industrielle Alliance), Lion Electric, La tasse, Laboratoire sur l'agriculture urbaine, Lemay, LiveRoof, Maillon Vert, Muses Urnes Design, Saesem, Société de développement Angus, Ville de Candiac
Top 20 Social impact projects in Quebec this year!
May 6, 2019. Trash2Treasure (T2T) is a carbon neutral collection service for students and residents within the Milton-Parc neighbourhood to donate their usable household articles such as furniture, clothes, books and electronics.
Trash2Treasure recycles unwanted household items to furnish refugees’ homes
May 16, 2018. Between April 27 and May 6, volunteers from the Trash2Treasure (T2T) pilot project collected five ton – the average weight of an African elephant – of used household goods left behind by students moving out at the end of the term. Adding to that success, enough recyclable material was amassed to furnish the homes of 19 refugee families.
The Trash 2 Treasure initiative on CTV
May 6, 2018. It’s a common sight this time of year in the McGill ghetto: piles of trash and discarded possessions on the sidewalk, left over from the students moving out of the neighborhood.
But a pilot project called Trash 2 Treasure – made possible by several groups, including the Student’s Society of McGill – looks to salvage and restore these items, giving them new life.
Trash2Treasure on CBC
May 2, 2018. At 6 minutes 20 seconds: a report about the service Trash2Treasure : is doled out over the course of 10 days in the McGill Ghetto and surrounding areas, where volunteers try to salvage reuseable items for thrift stores and asylum seekers.
Trash2Treasure gives students' cast-off furniture a new life this moving season
May 2, 2018. Fancy a treasure hunt? Every year, the sidewalks of Peter-McGill play host to abandoned mattresses and bookshelves, left behind by students who are moving away. This year, an initiative called Trash2Treasure is looking to give that stuff a good home, and Rebecca Ugolini went out with some of its volunteers.
A report on our Trash2Treasure project on CBC News
May 2, 2018. The moment exams end, piles of personal belongings and furniture sprout up, left behind by university students who wrap up their academic year and head home, in haste. A collaboration between the Students' Society of McGill University (SSMU), the Office of the Dean of Students, and environmental groups such as SAESEM, among others, Trash2Treasure picks up furniture from students' homes and distributes it to thrift shops like Renaissance or organizations that deal with asylum seekers.
Trash2Treasure hopes to lessen moving day clutter
April 19, 2018 At the end of the academic year many students move out, leaving their abandoned household items on the residential streets around McGill. This spring, a pilot project called Trash2Treasure (T2T) will pick up students’ cast-off household items before they hit the curb. For a period of ten days, from April 27 to May 6, students can request free pick up of usable goods they no longer need.
Montreal now recycles cigarette butts as part of the Mégot Zéro pilot project!
MONTRÉAL, July 18, 2016. Cigarette butts represent 30% of urban waste found in public areas. The nicotine and carcinogenic found in the stubs end up in our soil throughout rainfall which produces an undeniable source of pollution for our streams and ecosystems... lire la suite.
L’arrondissement de Verdun fait livrer plus de 18 000 bacs bruns de manière écoresponsable!
MONTRÉAL, le 26 mai 2016 – Dans le cadre de l’implantation progressive de la collecte des résidus alimentaires dans l’ensemble de l’agglomération de Montréal, l’arrondissement de Verdun est sur le point de desservir l’entièreté de son territoire....lire la suite.
Projet pilote « Je déménage, je valorise! » : Une initiative écologique et responsable. Une tonne de matières récupérées et valorisées après seulement une journée de collecte!
MONTRÉAL, le 22 juin 2015 – Chaque année, l’arrondissement de Ville-Marie bat des records de déménagements avec un taux avoisinant les 25%1, soit plus de 20 000 déménagements. D’autre part, seulement 29% des résidents du centre-ville de Montréal utilisent un véhicule motorisé...lire la suite.
Quartier 21 Peter-McGill, mon îlot vert en ville
MONTRÉAL, le 26 septembre 2012 – De son avant-gardisme, Montréal est une ville où les initiatives populaires et les projets pilotes se font de plus en plus présents. Vu le contexte mondial actuel, où notre environnement a désespérément besoin d’innovations et où les citoyens ont un grand besoin de se réapproprier les espaces urbains, l’agriculture urbaine a pris une ampleur sans précédent...lire la suite.