Echo Park Trash Club - Clean Up Equipment Fund
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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 16+ 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 own vehicle is getting TRASHED in her effort to aid this altruistic community beautification project. Due to Erin's perseverance, a city sanitation truck shows up to the Sunday, 2-hour long events. Check the links below to find out when the next event happens.
Volunteer, spread the word, donate whatever you can and SHARE this campaign! Every bit helps. $20 will go a long way but any amount will do. Check out the story below and watch the video to learn more. If you know of a sponsor who wants to do more, please let us know. Thank you!
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EPTC MISSION STATEMENT
KABC TV Video
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(C) KABC-TV 2001
KABC TV Video Coverage
ECHO PARK, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Garbage in the streets and alleys of Silver Lake and Echo Park has been a problem for years.
Erin Fein was inspired to take action. Using social media, she began searching for volunteers, and that's how the Echo Park Trash Club was born.
"Before every event I always have a little anxiety, sort of wondering like 'Is anybody gonna come?' And what I tell myself is, 'Well, you've got the supplies if it's just you, you can just pick up garbage by yourself.' But that's never happened," said Fein, founder of Echo Park Trash Club.
The group usually meets three times a month with 10 to 25 people gathering to clean up a predetermined site in the community.
An early problem for the group was trash disposal. Picking it up is only the first step. Initially volunteers took the trash home in their cars. That's when Fein's calls to the city paid off.
"She's actually worked with our supervisor to get us out here, and we do the best that we can with that time that we have available," said Damon Howse, an L.A. Sanitation employee
Now, a city sanitation truck joins the efforts, even going so far as to let volunteers help in compacting the garbage.
Fein says, "It is a commitment but it really doesn't take that much time so I think that we can make little groups like this all over the city and at least make a dent in the problem until the city and state find some more creative solutions for how to solve it."
Volunteer, spread the word, donate whatever you can and SHARE this campaign! Every bit helps. $20 will go a long way but any amount will do. Check out the story below and watch the video to learn more. If you know of a sponsor who wants to do more, please let us know. Thank you!
NEXTDOOR
EPTC MISSION STATEMENT
KABC TV Video
MORE NEWS CLIPS
Volunteers!----------
(C) KABC-TV 2001
KABC TV Video Coverage
ECHO PARK, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Garbage in the streets and alleys of Silver Lake and Echo Park has been a problem for years.
Erin Fein was inspired to take action. Using social media, she began searching for volunteers, and that's how the Echo Park Trash Club was born.
"Before every event I always have a little anxiety, sort of wondering like 'Is anybody gonna come?' And what I tell myself is, 'Well, you've got the supplies if it's just you, you can just pick up garbage by yourself.' But that's never happened," said Fein, founder of Echo Park Trash Club.
The group usually meets three times a month with 10 to 25 people gathering to clean up a predetermined site in the community.
An early problem for the group was trash disposal. Picking it up is only the first step. Initially volunteers took the trash home in their cars. That's when Fein's calls to the city paid off.
"She's actually worked with our supervisor to get us out here, and we do the best that we can with that time that we have available," said Damon Howse, an L.A. Sanitation employee
Now, a city sanitation truck joins the efforts, even going so far as to let volunteers help in compacting the garbage.
Fein says, "It is a commitment but it really doesn't take that much time so I think that we can make little groups like this all over the city and at least make a dent in the problem until the city and state find some more creative solutions for how to solve it."
Organizer and beneficiary
Annie Adjchavanich
Organizer
Los Angeles, CA
Erin Fein
Beneficiary