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HELP MAKE ONTARIO'S WATERWAYS #LESSSALTY

Every winter in Ontario, road salt is applied to our streets, sidewalks, and parking lots to prevent slips, falls and accidents. But we’re using way more than what is needed to keep us safe, and it’s putting our environment at risk.
 
Excess road salt washes off our sidewalks and roads into storm drains and eventually our lakes and rivers. Recent studies from the University of Toronto have found salt concentrations in some GTA rivers and creeks to be as high as sea water. Freshwater species can’t survive in water this salty. 
 
We must be #LessSalty to protect our freshwater.
 
Applying huge piles of salt to our public spaces is wasteful, harmful to the environment, and damaging to infrastructure. It takes less than a cup of salt to melt ice on a square metre of sidewalk or walkway. When it comes to road salt, less is more.
 
Action is needed to keep damaging road salt out of our waterways. 

Take action and tell Ontario to be #LessSalty this winter!

 

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Minister of Environment, Conservation and Parks Hon. Andrea Khanjin
Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of the Environment, Conservation and Parks John Yakabuski

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Honourable
Andrea
Khanjin
Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks
Mr
John
Yakabuski
Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks