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Pollution probe spokesman Peter Love wants returnable bottles brought back to ease pollution caused by pull-top cans, as seen above. He refutes critic(...)
Pollution probe spokesman Peter Love wants returnable bottles brought back to ease pollution caused by pull-top cans, as seen above. He refutes critic(...)

Pollution probe spokesman Peter Love wants returnable bottles brought back to ease pollution caused by pull-top cans, as seen above. He refutes critic(...)

Date8/28/1969
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Original Toronto Star caption: Pollution probe spokesman Peter Love wants returnable bottles brought back to ease pollution caused by pull-top cans; as seen above. He refutes critics by saying that the brewing industry has a return of 96 per cent of its bottles on a 50-cent-a-case deposit.
GeographyCity, town, townshipToronto
GeographyProvince stateOntario
GeographyCountryCanada
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Object NumberTSPA_0011009F
Members of pollution probe who issued scathing report on provincial bungling in preserving Ontario's water resources, from left, Ruth Kelly, Peter Mid(...)
Members of pollution probe who issued scathing report on provincial bungling in preserving Ontario's water resources, from left, Ruth Kelly, Peter Mid(...)
10/29/1970
It's a clear water wagon, This truck-mounted portable water treatment plant, built by Union Carbide, was too big to get into the Pollution Control Sho(...)
It's a clear water wagon, This truck-mounted portable water treatment plant, built by Union Carbide, was too big to get into the Pollution Control Sho(...)
6/15/1972
Lab technicians Keith Austen (foreground) and Harry Alkema test Lake Ontario water samples for nutrients aboard the motor vessel Martin Karlsen, a floating pollution research laboratory
Lab technicians Keith Austen (foreground) and Harry Alkema test Lake Ontario water samples for nutrients aboard the motor vessel Martin Karlsen, a floating pollution research laboratory
4/5/1971
Testing for stream pollution
Testing for stream pollution
1959
Warning Polluted Waters Persons Bathing Do So At Their Own Risk, Pollution Warning Marking a beach in Metro
Warning Polluted Waters Persons Bathing Do So At Their Own Risk, Pollution Warning Marking a beach in Metro
7/25/1969
Toronto was forced to close beaches last summer because of pollution
Toronto was forced to close beaches last summer because of pollution
7/21/1983
A Sample of water is taken from the west-branch of Don River yesterday by Mayor William Dennison, to be sent to a laboratory for a pollution test. May(...)
A Sample of water is taken from the west-branch of Don River yesterday by Mayor William Dennison, to be sent to a laboratory for a pollution test. May(...)
5/14/1971
Sign of the times: The warnings against using Metro's beaches may be up indefinitely, as officials fear sewer improvements, costing $250 million, may not be enough to clean up pollution
Sign of the times: The warnings against using Metro's beaches may be up indefinitely, as officials fear sewer improvements, costing $250 million, may not be enough to clean up pollution
7/26/1987
The waterfront will be off-limits to swimmers once again this summer because of high pollution levels
The waterfront will be off-limits to swimmers once again this summer because of high pollution levels
7/25/1987
Pollution pours into Lake Ontario out of the mouth of Etobicoke Creek, adding yet another ingredient to a recipe of toxins poisoning this natural resource
Pollution pours into Lake Ontario out of the mouth of Etobicoke Creek, adding yet another ingredient to a recipe of toxins poisoning this natural resource
6/18/1984
Creek pollution
Creek pollution
9/12/1969
It's certainly a mess, Conservative Leader Robert Stanfield (left) comments as Toronto Alderman Tony O'Donohue shows him the jumble of tin cans, bottl(...)
It's certainly a mess, Conservative Leader Robert Stanfield (left) comments as Toronto Alderman Tony O'Donohue shows him the jumble of tin cans, bottl(...)
8/14/1970