Canada's Climate Daily

A special letter from our Managing Editor

When I was a kid, a long time ago now, the big environmental story imprinted on my impressionable mind was litter. Our teachers taught us it was wrong and could harm animals that ate or became tangled in pieces of discarded trash.

We waged anti-litter campaigns with great zeal, at first nagging our parents not to toss garbage out the car window. With that battle quickly won, we’d chase after pedestrians who littered, handing back the offending item with a cheeky “you dropped this.”