ONTARIO - Bee City Canada's mission is to inspire cities, town, First Nations, schools, businesses and other organizations to take action and to commit to protect pollinators. Applications can be found on the Bee city web site and if approved, receive Bee City designation. Through their community outreach they connected with Small Scale Farms which runs a community edible garden initiative that supports a low cost food program in the Niagara region. Both organizations are hoping to expand their services throughout southern Ontario.
Small Scale Farm gardens are pollinator supporting and organization founder Renee Delaney is an outspoken advocate for pollinator populations and food security in southern Ontario.
In order to fiscally energize their community impact, they partnered with sector leading brand Textile Waste Diversion that generates stable ongoing support through their textile reclamation fundraising program which allows small grassroots charities to leverage their clothing community bin infrastructure in order to benefit from Ontario's used clothing as a source of funding support. The company works with local sorting facilities that have an outstanding 98% diversion rate and prioritize reuse over destruction.
Funds raised through this collective will be used to expand the work of both organizations throughout southern Ontario. Textile Waste Diversion has already donated $2000 towards the program.
Industry statistics show that 98% of all used household textiles have a reuse value and yet 85% still end up in landfill every year-approximately the equivalent of three Skydome stadiums.
Recent municipal regulations in the industry have decimated textile collection which has caused staggering job losses throughout the province sending millions of pounds of textiles back to landfills that used to be collected by the sector. Textile Waste Diversion is hoping this partnership will provide a quickening in rebuilding what regulations have destroyed through partnerships with community minded commercial property owners.
Tia Carroll of Textile Waste Diversion said, "This project means so much to me for so many reasons. I'm looking forward to building relationships with commercial property owners partnering with us on this initiative"
Source : wireservice