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Luke and I are so excited to announce that Operation EcoPen's collaboration with the Durham District School Board was a huge success! There were 50 schools in the Oshawa, Whitby, and Ajax communities that took part in Operation EcoPen. Each of the schools were sent a certificate of participation (like the one below). We would like to thank Mr. David Hollingsworth from the DDSB for his tremendous support of this important initiative. 
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I'm so proud of my brother, Derek, for being awarded Pringle Creek Public School's Community Connections Award for 2018. The award recognized Derek for contributions to his community and to the environment through his work with Operation EcoPen. Go Derek! - Luke N.
I visited the Oshawa Clinic Foot Care Centre to get orthotics...and walked out with a huge bag of recyclable writing instruments! A big thank you to Dr. Carlos de Sousa's office for their support! We so appreciate Janet's support in reminding everybody to bring in their used writing instruments. She's one of our community's pioneers in the recycling movement! And a huge shout out to Anthony de Sousa for helping and getting his classmates at school on board with this recycling!
We are thrilled to have the Department of Medicine at Women's College Hospital join Operation EcoPen! We are so grateful to Ms. Amanda Edward and Dr. Shoba Sujana-Kumar for championing this cause to not only recycle writing instruments but for raising awareness for our precious and delicate environment.  Luke and I are so excited to partner with the Town of Whitby to collect used pens for Operation EcoPen. We are especially grateful to Meaghan Craven, who is the Sustainability Coordinator for Whitby. She met with us this morning to deliver over 800 pens that will be recycled.
We are especially grateful to Mr. Kyle Arnold for launching Operation EcoPen at Michael Garron Hospital in East Toronto. We just dropped of mini-boxes at the hospital today.
During this past summer, three Durham District School Board public schools joined Pringle Creek Public School in partnering with Operation EcoPen. We are so excited to have Captain VandenBos P.S., John Dryden P.S., and Duke of Cambridge P.S. participating and welcome any other schools to join. Please contact us to get a starter kit if you are interested.
Operation EcoPen was featured in Oshawa This Week and brought a lot of interest to our program which is really great!   We are so grateful to Lisa Vanlint who is the Energy Steward for the Energy and Environment Department at the University Health Network (UHN) for working with us to bring Operation EcoPen to her organisation. We distributed 30 Operation EcoPen mini-boxes to Toronto General Hospital, Toronto Western Hospital, Princess Margaret Hospital and the Toronto Rehab Institute which are all part of UHN.
The Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care is a national network of Canadian health service organizations, associations and environmentally focused business associates who are committed adopting healthcare delivery that is environmentally friendly and sustainable. Their publication, the Green Digest, recently featured Operation EcoPen (read more). Luke and I are both so grateful to be involved even in a small way.
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AuthorsDerek and Luke Nguyen co-founded Operation EcoPen to increase environmental awareness amongst their peers. Archives
October 2024
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