Environmental Services and Our Green STC

The City of St. Catharines carries out numerous environmental and 'green' programs, initiatives and educational information including:

• Seasonal property flooding prevention
• Backflow Prevention program
• Drinking water quality and monitoring
• Water conservation and efficiency
• Climate Change
• Monitoring and inspecting the wastewater system
• Rain barrel sales
• Bee City commitment
• Electric vehicle charging stations downtown
• LED streetlight upgrade project
• Garbage, waste and recycling 
  • Read more about the City's new Waste Management Strategy for City Facilities and the pilot project being rolled out during 2020/21
• Promoting air quality through the Anti-Idling By-Law
• Trees
  • Free tree giveaways
  • Boulevard tree planting program
  • New tree planting how-to's 
  • Tree maintenance
  • Stump removals
• Gardening 
• Trillium Awards program
• Flower pot program
• Community gardens
• Tool kits and guides (Edible front yard gardens, pollinator gardens, boulevard gardens and more)

Our Green STC

Check out some environmentally-friendly activities that you can do at home!

• Tree Planting 101 
• Tree Watering 101
• How to Start a Kitchen Scrap Garden 
• Make Your Own Pine Cone Bird Feeders 
• Make Your Own Bee Hotel

(Click here) to watch instructional videos on our YouTube channel.