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Awareness, Clean-Up & Fundraising Events


​Celebrity Battle of the Butts!
April 1st - April 25th

What do 4 radio stations, an environmental foundation, Société Francophone de Victoria,
a Mayor & a MP have in common?
They are competitors in our innovative environmental event: The Celebrity Battle of the Butts!

​This Love Where You Live BC special event is to raise awareness and reduce harm to our environment from cigarette microplastic pollution, while publicizing and supporting local charities in our community.

A Winner-Take-All to Benefit Charity, Community and the Environment!

How it Works: Earth Day is April 22, so we invite you to participate in a new approach to environmental clean up: Turning Trash to CA$H! When we send cigarette butts for recycling, we receive cash back and donate this to a school or charity.

On April 1st, we reveal the participating competitors for Celebrity Battle of the Butts! 
Love Where You Live BC  will be one of them, for a total of 8 teams.

April 1st: Go time! Grab gloves and tongs and start removing cigarette pollution from our beaches, parks and public spaces. Trust me, you won't have to far before you find more than you can collect!
Collect them and bring them to 2641 Quadra St, beside the big blue Roxy Theatre, on April 11th, April 18th, and April 25th (Saturdays). Watch this site for real time updates on who is in the lead!

Pick your favourite team and dedicate the butts that you donate. At the end, the team that has the most dedicated butts gets to claim them all, and pick the charity that gets the Ca$h for Trash!

      A good thing for the environment, charity, and our whole community.
May 9 & 10 (Saturday & Sunday)
Buccaneer Days
12 – 6
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Esquimalt Recreation Centre
527 Fraser St, Victoria, BC
Get your eye patch and sword ready it's
Pirate time! Come out and celebrate with us during this historic annual event that has activities for all ages.
Drop by the Butt Hut, build a birdhouse and build habitat for song birds. Play a garbage game, test your knowledge. Bring butts for the Jam Can and keep our city beautiful.
​Stay tuned for more details ​​
​July 1 (Canada Day) 10 - 5
Canada Day at Gorge Waterway

Canada Day Celebration
Gorge Waterway
No better way to celebrate Canada Day!
Enjoy the beautiful Gorge Waterway when you visit us at the celebration, featuring free music, activities and a vendors market! We will be taking in cigarette butts and cigar tips for recycling. You can also build a birdhouse, play a garbage game or learn more about our role in the Gorge Waterway Clean-Up in September!
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May 24 (Sunday)
​Selkirk Waterfront Festival
11 - 5 

Selkirk Green Park
350 Waterfront Cresent
Enjoy the beautiful Gorge Waterway when you visit us at the Selkirk; free music, activities and a vendors market
At the Butt Hut we will be taking in 
cigarette butts and cigar tips for recycling
​You can build a birdhouse, play a garbage game and learn more about our role in the Gorge Waterway Clean up in September
August 1st (Saturday) 11 - 4
                 ​- Canada's Biggest
          ​Cigarette Butt Clean-up! -

Jam One in the Can!
Quadra Village
Jam One in the Can is all about butts...
The biggest butt clean up in Canada!
We model what can happen when a nickle refundable deposit is applied to cigarette butts. In 2019 we gave away $2000, fed one hundred people and removed an unprecedented 646,209 cigarette butts from the environment, then sent to recycling. Stay tuned for details on this year's prizes!

"I just wanted to email to thank your organization for putting on this event! My son and I heard about it and by only walking up and down our block we picked up 300 butts! We were both amazed by how much garbage was out there, and we’ve been out picking up garbage in our neighbourhood since then. 

The money is a nice bonus but cleaning up our beautiful city is the real reward. 

Thank you for your time, energy and patience, and we look forward to participating in next year’s event!!" 
- C.N & J.N
June 21 (Sunday)
Car Free Day
10 - 5

Downtown Victoria
Douglas Street
Held annually on Father’s Day, this free event takes over nine city blocks. This day-long celebration includes the Butt Hut where we will be taking in cigarette butts and cigar tips for recycling
​You can build a birdhouse, play a garbage game and learn more about our local activities
September 2020 (Date TBA)

Gorge Waterway Clean up
Gorge Waterway, Selkirk Green Park
Join us as we join the iconic Gorge Waterway Clean-Up. Every year, volunteers pitch in to clean up the water and shoreline along the Gorge. This improves the habitat for local wildlife. We invite everyone to participate in this important event! Volunteers will clean the shoreline and a volunteer dive team will retrieve debris from the ocean floor. Bring your own boots and gloves or borrow ours!