ECHO PARK TRASH CLUB - Maintenance Fund

Last year, thanks to your support, we raised funds to purchase a truck to haul around clean-up supplies. The funds have been responsibly stretched to pay for truck maintenance, insurance, registration, fuel and volunteer safety supplies such as gloves and needle disposal bins.

It's time to raise supplemental funds for the Echo Park Trash Club's vehicle's ongoing maintenance and expenses. Echo Park Trash Club funds are dwindling, and every bit helps. $20 will go a long way, but we appreciate any and all support.

HOW CAN I HELP?

Come to a clean-up event! Spread the word, donate whatever you can and SHARE this campaign!

We announce upcoming Sunday events (10am-noon) on Instagram, NextDoor, on our Website or sign up for our Newsletter.

We want to acknowledge our community partners, Thunderbolt Echo Park and LO-FI Aperitifs, for their continued partnership since 2020. $2 from the sale of every LO-FI Echo Park Trash Can beverage ordered is generously donated to Echo Park Trash Club. We happily gather at Thunderbolt after many clean-up events and are grateful for their support. All are welcome.

KCRW EPTC Interview and 7-minute broadcast, 8/9/22

Echo Park Trash Club website

CLUB FOUNDATION

The Echo Park Trash Club was founded in 2020 by local musician Erin Fein as a grassroots organization of volunteers hailing from Echo Park, CA and beyond. We gather several Sundays a month to collect the mounting trash in our downtown Los Angeles neighborhood bordered by Silver Lake and Chinatown. The Club has inspired volunteer trash clubs in different communities to form, making us proud!

ABOUT THE CLUB

Echo Park Trash Club is a group of community volunteers whose mission is to help keep our neighborhood clean. Due to the sensitive and complicated issue of houselessness in Los Angeles, there is a large degree of trash buildup around encampments in our city.

There is also a significant degree of neighborhood debris separate from encampments.

Our mission is to step in where the city of Los Angeles currently is not and to clean our neighborhood while treating the unhoused folks living here with the respect they deserve.

Echo Park Trash Club was founded in July 2020 by Erin Fein. Today, it is a thriving group of civic-minded individuals who love the neighborhood, and it belongs to everyone who volunteers and the Echo Park community at large.

FROM OUR PAST GOFUNDME CAMPAIGN

Los Angeles, CA -- Echo Park local musician Erin Fein got tired of passing garbage in the streets and decided to do something about it. With the help of volunteers she enlisted on social media and more than 40+ clean-up events, ECHO PARK TRASH CLUB (EPTC) was born. The streets of LA are cleaner due to Erin's ongoing efforts! Let's help her win the fight again trash and raise much-needed funds to buy a truck (plus cover: insurance, registration, maintenance/gas) to transport clean-up materials (trash bags, shovels, trash pickers, wheelbarrows that she's been paying for out of pocket?!!) to future clean up sites. These neighborhood events happen three times per month in a predetermined area of Los Angeles. Her vehicle is getting TRASHED in her effort to aid this altruistic community beautification project.