PortsToronto
207 Queens Quay West M5J 1B7 Toronto, ON, Canada

Empowering employees through education and resources, to live their best lives. The @PortsToronto Wellness Committee was formed in 2017 and meets regularly to share ideas and identify strategies to promote health and wellness in the workplace. Learn more about how our Wellness Committee provided mental health support and health & safety tips for employees in our 2020 Sustainability Report: https://bit.ly/3y9I3nV #EmployeeHealthandWellnessDay

Though many Ontario museums are closed right now, you can still experience #MuseumDay through online programs and virtual tours, including TRM Museum at Home, virtual program packed full of activities for train lovers and enthusiasts to enjoy at home, including crossword and jigsaw puzzles, virtual tour guides, scavenger hunts and more. https://bit.ly/2RA6cDd @TORailwayMuseum in 1972... #MuseumDay #ONMuseumMonth #MayIsMuseumMonth #TOWaterfront

May 18: With necessary structural steel repairs now complete, @PortsToronto is pleased to confirm that the Leslie Street Spit floating pedestrian bridge has returned to operation and pedestrian access to the endikement roadway leading to the east headlands of the Leslie Street Spit has been reinstated. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3eWAjOL @TRCA_HQ #LeslieStreetSpit

Did you know? PortsToronto’s dredging process transports clean natural sediment from the mouth of the Don River to the Leslie Street Spit and creates new wetland habitat while helping to prevent flooding in Toronto's harbour. Learn more about our efforts to protect the environment in our annual Sustainability Report: https://bit.ly/3y9I3nV

Save the Date! Due to current restriction on group gatherings, and in respect of physical distancing and COVID-19 protocols, PortsToronto will hold its Annual General Meeting online. The meeting will be held on June 14 at 9:30 a.m. Registration details to come.

#DYK? Salties are ocean-going ships that are under 225 metres long and can access the Great Lakes through the St. Lawrence Seaway. Here is the MV Tufty, the first saltie of the 2020 season in the #PortOfToronto. #GreatLakes #Seaway

This view is certainly a perk! Every winter our Works and Environmental Services department removes navigational buoys in preparation for winter and ice formation in the harbour. Thanks for all your hard work.

PortsToronto plans to collaborate with waterfront stakeholders to expand the Seabin Program in Toronto’s harbour in future. While we can’t wait to see where this project takes us, there are steps we can all take at home right now to help mitigate plastic pollution. Have you considered reducing your household waste? Back by popular demand, why not try the University of Toronto Trash Team's Home Waste Audit and challenge yourself to reduce your waste as you increase your waste... literacy! Join the @UofTTrashTeam #HomeWasteAudit starting Tuesday January 12 register at: http://ow.ly/ZNg650CIf3J

Back by popular demand, the @UofTTrashTeam is hosting another #HomeWasteAudit! Start 2021 off right by learning how to reduce waste at home. It all begins tomorrow. Sign up now. Register at http://ow.ly/ZNg650CIf3J

During the 2020 research season, @UofTTrashTeam researchers discovered that vegetation collected by #Seabins has an important role to play in accumulating #microplastics. While Seabins are effective in capturing floating litter and debris as small as 2-millimetres, water-saturated plant material collected in the bins acts as a mesh to capture tiny microplastics, such as pre-production plastic pellets, that might otherwise pass through the Seabin’s capture bag. A pellet a form of pre-production plastic that comes from industry is found tangled in vegetation collected by a Seabin at the @OHMToronto by @UofTTrashTeam researcher, Cassandra Sherlock. On average this season, @PortsToronto’s Seabins diverted 11,438 plastic pellets from Lake Ontario.

This year, as part of their wider research efforts and to help inform the future third phase of the @PortsToronto #SeabinProject, researchers with our partner organization the @UofTTrashTeam conducted visual audits of the Toronto waterfront to help identify problem areas where floating litter typically accumulates. This process involved visiting key locations from Ireland Park to Sugar Beach at regular intervals to count and quantify floating litter. This season, @UofTTrash...Team researchers found over 100 different types of litter at the 12 visual audit locations. Of note, the majority of the floatable litter found were single-use plastics, including plastic straws, bottle caps and bags. In October 2020, Minister Jonathan Wilkinson announced a ban on harmful single-use plastic items such as checkout bags, straws, stir sticks, six-pack rings, cutlery and food ware made from hard-to-recycle plastics. Here are the top ten litter items found in the 2020 Visual Audit.

January 6: As part of @PortsToronto’s annual preparation for winter, crews will be removing the keep out buoys from Toronto’s Harbour today between 8am-3pm. Further details https://bit.ly/2JNgblb

This #FreighterFriday view brought to you by the MV Chestnut, pictured here at @redpath_sugar on the Toronto waterfront, and its delivery of sugar used to support the city's food and beverage industry. #PortofToronto #ShipduJour #BoatNerd #TOwaterfront

The @UofTTrashTeam reports that over the 2020 season, between July and October, an average of 28,284 small pieces of anthropogenic debris were diverted per @PortsToronto #Seabin, for a total 84,854 pieces of plastic litter removed from Lake Ontario. Tiny trash, including #microplastics is by far the most common debris collected by the Seabins. Also commonly found were clear plastic packaging, hard plastic fragments from takeout containers or plastic packaging & cigarette butts. Swipe to see the #topten litter items found in the @OHMToronto #Seabins between July and October 2020.

This December 1974 view of the Toronto skyline from the #PortLands shows a @TourCNTower mid-construction. Works began on the tower in February 1973 and it officially opened in June 1976! What other landmarks can you spot? Flickr: Dan/mcwidi_2

Marine imports have remained strong at the #PortofToronto this year. The port is part of an important supply chain that offers businesses a convenient, cost-effective and environmentally responsible way of bringing goods into Canada's largest city. #HighwayH2O #Shipping

Now that's a sunset. The Outer Harbour Marina, located steps from Tommy Thompson Park and 10 minutes from Toronto's downtown core, offers one of the best views of our city. @OHMToronto @RemiM870... @DiscoverToronto #SeeTorontoNow #RelaxationStartsHere

Reminder: Nov. 16-18 the Ship Channel Bridge will undergo required inspection. Work will take place between 8am-6pm. Delays are expected during this period and bridge users are encouraged to plan alternate routes to reach areas south of the Ship Channel. https://bit.ly/2K4P7xI