STOP! DON'T THROW THAT MARKER AWAY!
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Memorial proudly participates in the Crayola ColorCycle program, which recycles and repurposes markers that would otherwise be thrown away. In just 4 days of school, we collected 492 markers, and by Thanksgiving our students had saved 1,007 markers from the trash!
The best part is that ANY marker can be recycled, not just Crayola brand markers. That means you can save markers from being thrown away in your home too-- just send them in to school and we'll handle the rest! The more markers we collect, the more we'll save from landfills... it's just one small step we can take to reduce waste and help our planet! |
THINK ABOUT IT...
You're looking at 22 POUNDS of plastic markers (1,007 markers in total) ready to be shipped out and repurposed into a clean-burning fuel. This is what the ColorCyclers of Memorial School have collected in a little over 2 months of school!
That means schools all over the country have most likely already thrown away at least 1,000 markers... each adding 22 pounds of plastic waste to landfills by Thanksgiving. There are 1,171 public elementary schools in Massachusetts. If each of those schools has already thrown away roughly 22 pounds of markers, that's almost 26,000 pounds of plastic waste from markers alone added to landfills before Thanksgiving.
If just 8 markers can produce enough energy to cook an egg, make toast, and heat up 2 cups of hot chocolate, IMAGINE what we could do if EVERY marker was saved from the trash. Help our ColorCyclers work together to make our world a better place... one marker at a time!
That means schools all over the country have most likely already thrown away at least 1,000 markers... each adding 22 pounds of plastic waste to landfills by Thanksgiving. There are 1,171 public elementary schools in Massachusetts. If each of those schools has already thrown away roughly 22 pounds of markers, that's almost 26,000 pounds of plastic waste from markers alone added to landfills before Thanksgiving.
If just 8 markers can produce enough energy to cook an egg, make toast, and heat up 2 cups of hot chocolate, IMAGINE what we could do if EVERY marker was saved from the trash. Help our ColorCyclers work together to make our world a better place... one marker at a time!
HOW IT WORKS
