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Trash2Treasure

Anyone who has ventured through Milton-Parc at the end of the winter semester will have noticed the large accumulations of abandoned household items that encumber the sidewalks for days after students have moved out. This problem has been a source of long time friction between permanent Milton-Parc residents and the McGill community and culminated in a call for collaborative solutions by the Plateau Mont-Royal Borough in spring 2017.

After numerous meetings between borough officials, SSMU, the office of the Dean of Students, the Milton-Parc Citizens’ Committee and SAESEM (Société pour l’Action, l’Éducation et la Sensibilisation Environnementale de Montréal) a non-profit which specialises in sustainable solutions, a partnership and a strategy was formed for the creation of a pilot project called Trash2Treasure.

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, appliances, canned food, etc. It aims to reduce the amount of waste hitting the streets, particularly during move-out periods, while also finding ways to give new life to usable articles and prevent them from being landfilled. With storage space provided by McGill Student Housing and Hospitality services (SHHS), logistics from the SSMU Community Affairs committee, SHHS, SAESEM and L’Arrondissement Le Plateau Mont-Royal, Trash2Treasure is a truly collaborative initiative. All the partners hope it instils pride in our collective spaces and helps build the relationship between good neighbours in Milton-Parc.

The service operates between the 27th of April and the 3rd of May - the major moving week in Milton-Parc. Through the month of April, people are able to request T2T’s services using a google form, and SAESEM uses the form to create a collection schedule for the week of operations. During the week, a team of volunteers is organized to visit apartments who have requested T2T’s services, and collect articles from them. Additionally teams of volunteers with bicycle trailers also comb the streets looking for abandoned piles of furniture, sorting through them to select usable items. These articles are all brought to a centralised location – provided by SHHS – and triaged, before being both resold to students and donated to Collectif Bienvenue and Renaissance.