Welcome to Eco-Erek, a place to share eco-ideas! I’m 11 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!

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.)

●Try to Reuse, Reduce, or Recycle ONE item a day.

LOOK BELOW for

Attachments & Flyers


Click here - 2012 Drive Locations.


Click here - 2011 Newsletter!


Click here - 2011 EcoDrive results.


Click here - “The Huffington Post” article.


Click here - “Toledo Free Press” article.


Contact us at

info@ecoerek.org

EcoErek on Facebook

Background drawn by Erek.

Denim Drive 2011

3,920 items of denim

Shoe Drive 2011

3,000 pr. of shoes

Erek in Wash DC at the Guiness World Record Ceremony for the “Largest Collection of Clothing to Recycle”.

4 year total denim collected:

2009 - 1,684

2010 - 4,154

2011 - 3,920

2012 - 1,189

Total -10,947

Enought to insulate over 11 homes!

2012 Eco Drive Totals

1,189 denim items

399 pr. shoes

as of April 30, 2012



EcoDrive 2012

Denim

EcoErek will once again be collecting denim in 2012 on behalf of Cotton. From Blue to Green. The collected denim is shredded into cotton fibers and remanufactured into housing insulation to benefit communities affected by a natural disaster. 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 about this process, go to www.CottonFromBlueToGreen.org

and Shoes

We are happy to announce that we will also be accepting your unwanted shoes of ANY kind at the upcoming drives. In order to do this, we have partnered with USAgain, a company dedicated to conserving precious natural resources and reducing landfill waste.

I need your help! My goal is to collect 5,000 denim items and 5,000 prs. of shoes this year! With your help, we can keep these textiles out of our Northwest Ohio Landfills! Please contact us at info@ecoerek.org if you are interested in holding a drive at your workplace. Thank you!

Sincerely - Erek

Click Here for 2012 Drive Photos

Green News

EcoErek honored -

Scartlet & Gray Ag Day event in Columbus was an extraordinary experience. EcoErek advocated the importance of recycling and collected 520 prs. of jeans for his project.

EcoErek honored - Erek received the Judge’s Award at the annual Eastern Maumee Bay Chamber of Commerce Prism Award’s banquet on March 7 for his community recycling project. Way to go Erek!






2012 Dates

April 21, Saturday



April 27, Friday


June 2, Saturday



June 23, Saturday




April 22 thru Aug 30

Time

10-4 pm



10-2 pm


12-6 pm



10-4 pm




DROP BOX

office hours only

DROP BOX

store hours only

M-S 10-8, Sun 12-5

DROP BOX

store hours only

DROP BOX

M - Th 8:30-9,

Fri 8:30-6, Sat 8-4

Results

217 prs. jeans



520 prs. jeans





Locations

Toledo Zoo (Anthony Wayne parking lot)

Earth Day celebration “Party for the Planet”


OSU’s Scarlet & Gray Ag Day-Columbus


Town Center at Levis Commons

Perrysburg - outside in front of Cinemas


The Future Wave

3324 Navarre Ave., Oregon

Parking Lot (419) 698-9283


Dr. Branam’s dentist office

3140 Dustin Rd., Oregon

Once Upon a Child

194 E. South Boundary St., Perrysburg

7565 Sylvania Ave., Sylvania

Plato’s Closet

144 W. South Boundary, Perrysburg

The Future Wave salon

3324 Navarre Ave., Oregon



Thank You to our 2012 Partners

Location Sponsors

Dr. Branam’s Dentistry

Once Upon A Child

Plato’s Closet

The Future Wave Salon

The Toledo Zoo

Town Center at Levis Commons




Storage Sponsor

Maumee Bay Self Storage

T-Shirt Sponsor

The Image Group