It was an incredible week, our ‘Trash Man’ program for War Child Canada achieved some incredible awareness and raised almost *$2000 in 7 (grueling days). We want to thank everyone who blogged, tweeted, called, emailed, donated their support for the initiative. We are overwhelmed by the response and would especially like to thank Simon Rollason of Great Lakes Brewery for the use of his personal & company vehicles, Zip Car for crediting us for the use of theirs. CBC, Toronto Star, CityTV & CTS  for such positive media coverage, and War Child Canada for allowing us to undertake such an ambitious (& audacious) fundraiser.

To ‘Team Trashman’  Asaka Yamashita, Michael Penney, Toby Proctor, Jaime Woo who joined me on this adventure: you are incredible people, who have my love and appreciation.

"I’d like to thank Ryan and his #Trashman crew for the most extraordinary effort over the last few weeks. You are all War Child heroes, albeit slightly smelly ones. Now go get some sleep!"
 - James Topham, Director of Communications, War Child Canada

The Reason: Sadly the Ontario Environmental Protection Act forbids us from continuing to collect our neighbours trash during the Toronto garbage strike without a $500 certificate of registration with the Ministry. We have decided that $500 was unjustified any money raised from our work should go directly to War Child not a ‘pay to play’ certificate.

We wish both the City & Local 416 well in their negotiations, we hope our light hearted approach took a little pressure off the process by providing a positive alternative during such uncertain and frustrating times.

Please remember http://warchild.ca/trashman link is still open we encourage you to consider War Child and make a donation, every dollar counts.

With Love, Ryan Taylor

*Still counting the beans