Brampton, ON (May 27, 2019): The Region of Peel announces the continuation of its Mercury Roundup program in partnership with Scout Environmental and Ontario Trillium Foundation. Since the launch of this program in 2016, the Region of Peel has collected over 700 mercury-containing products and recovered over 30kgs of liquid mercury, equivalent to the mercury found in 3 million fluorescent tube lights!
“There are many older mercury-containing items in people’s basements, garages, and storage units—items like thermometers, thermostats, blood pressure monitors, and button batteries,” says Dwayne Cromwell, Supervisor, Community Recycling Centre, at the Region of Peel. “We want to make sure these items don’t get thrown in the garbage or in recycling, where they pose a risk to the environment.”
The Mercury Roundup Program aims to educate Peel residents about the different types of items containing mercury and how to safely dispose of them. Residents are encouraged to bring these items to any Peel’s Community Recycling Centre and receive a digital thermometer, free of charge.
Mercury Facts:
Residents can check https://www.mercuryroundup.ca/Peel to see a full list of items that may contain mercury.
About Scout Environmental:
Scout Environmental is an award-winning organization that engages the public, guides industry, and equips communities to make better choices—for their health, and the environment. For nearly two decades, Scout has designed and delivered national campaigns, guided leading corporations, and helped public and private partners see beyond sustainability.
About Ontario Trillium Fund:
An agency of the Government of Ontario, the Ontario Trillium Fund is one of Canada’s largest granting foundations. With a budget of over $136 million, it awards grants to some 1,000 projects every year to build healthy and vibrant Ontario communities. For more information about the Ontario Trillium Fund, please visit www.otf.ca.
As you’re aware, we’ve experienced a very wet spring this year that has caused flooding at many of our waterfront parks and impacted our other parks and sports fields across the city. I have attached a few pictures from this week as a reference.
Our Parks Operations team has been diligently working to prepare our parks for increased usage as weather conditions improve. The wet weather has been great for our grass and trees, but unfortunately created ground conditions that limit access by our crews and equipment to cut the grass. There are many locations that we can’t get machines on without tearing up the turf.
We have been working with our sport groups to communicate conditions at sport fields. All baseball and soccer fields were prepped and ready for our outdoor sport field openings, including a large soccer showcase tournament this past weekend, hosted by Dixie Soccer Club. We will continue to update the groups on field closures and conditions and ask for their cooperation to stay off of fields that are “out of play”.
We appreciate resident’s patience as our staff are working diligently to get back to our regular service schedule. We will be posting messages on our social media channels to advise the public of conditions.
If you have any questions or receive any feedback, please contact me directly.
Stephen
As you may be aware, the Region of Peel has changed the timing of its garbage exemption periods, starting this year, to maintain and enhance our waste collection services for our residents.
The new dates for 2019 and early 2020 are:
| OLD DATES | NEW DATES |
| May 2019
(following Victoria Day) |
June 17-28, 2019 |
| September 2019
(following Labour Day) |
September 16-27, 2019 |
| December 2019
(following Christmas/New Year) |
January 27-31, 2020
February 3-7, 2020 |
During an exemption period there is no maximum amount of acceptable garbage residents can put on the curb. Garbage bag tags are not required during exemption periods.
This change was made to address the high volume of excess garbage that is typically collected during an exemption period, as well as to avoid holidays and conflicts with other waste pick-up services being provided around the same time.
To proactively inform residents of this change, the Region is communicating this information through several channels, starting May 6 through to end of June, with similar reminders going out in the Fall and Winter.
The Region will also be using this opportunity to promote a waste collection notifications feature launching soon, which residents can start registering for ahead of time.
Information will be delivered to residents using Peel’s website, Twitter and subscriber e-newsletter, community newspapers and direct mail, mobile street signage, and face-to-face resident interactions with Peel’s by-law officers. Examples of Peel’s communications material are attached for your reference.
For more information about these exemption changes, please contact Paula Della Bianca, Project Manager, Curbside Policies and Programs for the Region of Peel at 905-791-7800 ext. 4513 or Paula.DellaBianca@peelregion.ca.
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Thirsty?
Drink tap
water……. Join the community for a water treatment plant tour
920 East Avenue, Mississauga
Saturday, May 11, 2019
10 A.M. – 4 P.M.
Last tour at 3:30 P.M.
Learn how your tap water is treated using one of the largest and most technologically advanced water treatment plants in Canada.
Guided 30 minute tours will be offered every 10 minutes.Comfortable, closed toe shoes are mandatory for this tour.
Children must be supervised.
For more information call 905-791-7800 ext. 4409
Port Credit Slow Roll 2019 Community Bike Rides departing from J C Saddington Park north parking lot at 7 pm on the following dates:
Events are subject to weather related cancellations. Notification of cancellations to be 3 hours or more prior to the event.
Join the Port Credit Slow Roll Facebook site or register at pcslowroll@gmail.com.
Current water levels along the Lake Ontario shoreline are high and are nearing the levels set in 2017, when extreme conditions caused significant damage along the lakeshore in Mississauga. Levels in Lake Ontario are higher than usual due to higher than usual intake from Lake Erie and restriction of water outflow at the Moses-Saunders Power Dam. Staff are regularly patrolling the City of Mississauga shoreline and report some flooding along the waterfront specifically at:
High water is expected to continue along the waterfront for some time and peak over the next month before slowly receding. I have attached some pictures of current conditions for your consideration.
The current weather forecast indicates that rain will continue to fall today and continue until Friday with forecasted accumulation of 40 mm of precipitation by the end of the week. In addition, we are currently experiencing high gusts of easterly winds, which directly affect wave action into the shoreline. The Works Operations and Maintenance Incident Management Team has been activated and will be meeting again this afternoon to report on conditions. I will provide another update following this meeting.
Mitigation Strategies
The City of Mississauga has received a Lake Ontario Flood Watch from the Credit Valley Conservation (CVC). Water safety messaging is in place on the City’s website.
Should you require additional information or assistance, please contact me………….
Stephen
