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Welcome to Eco-Erek, a place to share eco-ideas! I’m 9 years old and I LOVE to recycle. I hope you do to. Helping to save Planet Earth’s resources is important to me.
I like to read about ways that we humans can be resourceful with our stuff. Not everything can and should get thrown in the landfill. There is only so much room for all of our garbage! I don’t like when I see things that we throw away, especially plastic, end up in our oceans and rivers and trees. Yuck!
Have a look around my site and help me, help our planet!
● 2010 Denim Drive to begin on Earth Day, April 22nd. (Happy Birthday Breanna!)
● Bring denim to various locations listed.
● Keep out of local landfill. Yay!
● Try to Reuse, Reduce, or Recycle ONE thing a day.
LOOK BELOW for Denim Drive locations and times!
Click here for a Flier to hang at work!
Denim Drive 2009
1,684 items of denim
My Goal
- Communicate importance of recycling.
- Show how easy recycling is.
- Promote resourcefullness in people.
- Promote conservation of Mother Earth.
(animals, oceans, rainforests,
arctic region, mountains, etc.)
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Background drawn by Erek.
Northwest Ohio
Denim Drive 2010
Happy Spring Northwest Ohio!
Current Count
as of Aug 18th is
4,076 items.
That’s enough to insulate
8
homes.
Let’s clean out our closets after this long winter! It’s time to bring us your old, holey, torn, stained, too-small or too-big denim items in any color. The donated denim will be shredded down into cotton fibers and re-manufactured into housing insulation to benefit comunities in need. In the past, the denim insulation has gone to Habitat for Humanity to help communities devistated by Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Coast region. For more information on what happens to the denim-you can always look at the process more in depth at www.cottonfrombluetogreen.org. (Erek’s Drive has been approved by COTTON. FROM BLUE TO GREEN. ® for 2010)
My favorite part about this project is that all the donated denim will stay out of our local Northwest Ohio Landfills!
I also had the opportunity to be a part of setting the Guinness World Record for “Largest Collection of Clothing to Recycle” in 2009. It was so awesome and so much FUN! I collected 1,684 items last year, and my goal this year is 6,000! Enough to insulate 12 Habitat homes.
I need your help! If your organization, company or school would like to hold a denim drive in conjunction with me in the spring of 2010, please contact us at info@ecoerek.org. We will coordinate the collection of denim from your drives by June 30th.
We thank our shipping and storage sponsor, First Solar, for taking on the monumental task of shipping ALL of the denim collected to the destination in Arizona. Denim is pretty heavy in large quantities.
Hats off to Starr Elementary for donating 266 items!
Owens Comm. College-Findlay is in a close second with 215 items!
OSU’s Ag Day brought in 193 items! Way to go students!
Lourdes College brought in 157 items in just one short week!
Way to go Chuck O’Shea! Chrysler employees came through with 41 items in just a few short days.
Thank you Cumulus for the 23 prs. of jeans added to the collection.
Our shipping sponsor, First Solar held a drive the yielded an impressive 411 items! That’s the largest company drive of 2010.
Time
Recycle Today!
1-4pm
10-4pm
(Erek there 1-4pm)
10-4pm
12-6pm each day
10-4pm each day
DROP BOX
office hours only DROP BOX
store hours only
M-S 10-8, Sun 12-5
Results
90 items
83 items
267 items
245 items
335 items
184 to date
494 to date
Locations
Earth Day Celebration
WalMart
on Navarre Ave. in Oregon, OH
We’ll be outside between the two entrances.
Owens Community College
on Oregon Rd. in Perrysburg, OH
Audio Visual Center (AVCC Galleria-Look for signs)
Kroger
on Navarre Ave. in Oregon, OH
Outside on west side of building.
Town Center at Levis Commons
Perrysburg, OH outside in front of Cinemas
Denim Drive in Driveway
315 N. Teachout Rd. Curtice, OH
Dr. Branam’s dentist office
3140 Dustin Rd. Oregon, OH
Once Upon a Child
194 E. South Boundary St., Perrysburg, OH
(Drop box at the Perrysburg location only)
DROP BOXES are now closed.
Date
April 22
April 24, Saturday
May 1, Saturday
May 22, Saturday
June 4-5, Fri & Sat
June 11-12, Fri & Sat
April 22 thru June 30
We say Thank You to the following:
First Solar
WalMart
Kroger
Owens Community College
Town Center at Levis Commons
Dr. Branam’s Dentistry
Once Upon a Child
The Image Group
Chrysler employees
Fresinius Medical Supplies
Jerusalem Elementary School
Wynn Elementary School
Starr Elementary School
Ohio State University’s Ag Day coordinators
Lourdes College
The Future Wave
NAS Recruitment
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