Now that winter is over, Toronto sits in a brief seasonal limbo. Although it’s warm, the buds haven’t come out yet, so the trees are winter barren. City workers are scurrying to clean up all the residual grime that settles after snow melt. Earth day is here and people are gathering up the last remaining garbage. But what about the trees?
I’ve never noticed so much shredded plastic hanging from the trees. It’s as if some malicious prankster has TP’d the city. Where did it come from? Did somebody deliberately put it there? Or did this happen “organically”? Will people remove it? Or will people do nothing, assuming the plastic has disappeared once all the trees come into leaf? It’s a mystery to me.
Here’s NYC’s solution to the problem: