Friends of Dufferin Grove Park: Mayor's Cleanup Day

City Clean-up day pages

For the City of Toronto's general information about Clean-up Days, click here: Cleanup Days.

For the City's information about the 20 Minute Makeover cleanup on Friday afternoon April 23 at 2:00, Click here: 20 minute Makeover.

For the City's Cleanup Day page, for Saturday April 24, click here: Community Cleanup Day Page.

To get a poster that you can print out and post in the neighbourhood to advertise your group, click here: Cleanup Day Poster.

The City wants you to register each group, so that they can give you bags and know where to pick stuff up.

To Advertise your group for Saturday April 24

There are several things you can do to advertise your group.

Post a notice on this web page

Send us an email at cleanupday@dufferinpark.ca and we'll post your group's information on this web page. Then you can email this page to some friends and neighbours ( ) as another way to advertise your group.

Email this page to some friends and neighbours

Click here: , to email this web page to a friend or neighbour (you'll find this utility at the bottom of the page - in fact at the bottom of all our web pages). You can send the same email to a bunch of people at once, propose your plan, and direct them to this web page for detailed information. If you send us an email at cleanupday@dufferinpark.ca, we'll post your information here as well, and you can indicate that in your email to your friends and neighbours.

Put up posters

Click here: Cleanup Day Poster to load a poster that the city has created. You can print it out, and post it in the neigbourhood with all the information about your group's activities on that cleanup day.

Talk to and phone your friends and neighbours

A great time to get together with friends and neighbours, and get to know some new folks in the neighbourhood, while helping to make the neighbourhood and the city clean!

The Challenge

-- April 19-25: Mayor David Miller’s "Clean Sweep Challenge Week": an attempt to engage the whole city in litter-picking. In our area, Judy Simutis has co-ordinated a park clean-up with other dog owners in Dufferin Grove Park every spring, for years now. Some of the dog walkers pick up litter every time they go through the park, and the city has maintenance workers who pick park trash twice a week. So the park is not nearly as bad (most of the time) as some of the surrounding lane-ways. Perhaps this year our neighbourhood will rise up and sweep through the lane-ways as well as the parks, removing tons of shredded grocery bags and rusting umbrellas and discarded shoes and dropping them into waiting city trucks. That would be a great day! We would certainly follow up with a celebration pizza lunch at the bake oven.

(At the entry into the Hamburg sewer system in Germany, there is a garbage museum, showing the most outrageous things flushed down the sewer grates - from false teeth to baby carriages. Perhaps we could have a show-and-tell sequel to the clean-up in our neighbourhood, an exhibit of interesting trash laid out on long tables by the rink house….?) Look for posters in the park after mid-April, or check this web site on this page.

From Work on Friday, April 23, at 2:00 pm

The Mayor is encouraging everyone to take 20 minutes off work at 2:00 pm Friday April 23 to pick up litter. Co-ordinate this with your fellow workers.

The City wants you to register for this, so they can give you bags and know where to pick stuff up. From the City's 20 minute makeover web page:

Why do I have to register?

Other than actually getting out there and cleaning up, registering is the most important thing you can do to be part of the 20-Minute Toronto Makeover. When you register, two important things happen:

The City makes sure you receive the appropriate number of specially-coloured bags for your group. (Bags available only while supplies last, so call early.)

City garbage collection crews will know where to go to pick up the garbage your group collects.

All day on Saturday, April 24, to 3:00 pm

The Mayor is encouraging us to form into groups, and really go at it. The City wants you to register each group, so that they can give you bags and know where to pick stuff up. They post the same registration reasons on their Cleanup Day Page as on their 20 minute makeover page (see above). The City wants you to register your group by April 16, and be done by 3:00pm on Saturday April 24.