DANVILLE; Calif. -- The Crayon Initiative aims to bring happiness to children and the environment by recycling used crayons into new ones. The founder of the Crayon Initiative, Bryan Ware, was at ...

5. Crayons Of course, we haven’t forgotten crayons. Send your crumbled old art supplies to the National Crayon Recycle Program in Colorado, which collects the materials for Crazy Crayons.

We don't have the smell of crayons in our house anymore," said Ware. With the change in venue, crayon deliveries have exploded, from shipping free to 35 hospitals in 12 states to more than 260 ...

Bryan Ware pours melted recycled crayons into a mold machine as he makes new crayons in Danville, Calif., on Wednesday, April 5, 2017.

Up to 75,000 pounds of broken or unwanted crayons end up in U.S. landfills every year. This Earth Day, recycle old crayons with this ecofriendly craft.

Bring the fun back with Eco Stars ($9) star-shaped crayons. Not only are they non-toxic, they're also made of 100 percent recycled crayons that have been collected from the National Crayon Recycle ...

According to the National Crayon Recycle Program, more than 60 million crayons are thrown away every year in the United States. That amounts to around 500,000 pounds of waste in landfills.

Just because they are rough on their crayons doesn't mean your kids have to draw with little waxy nubs. Craft site Chica and Jo has a tutorial on breathing new life into your crayons. Gather up ...

And crayons aren’t the only random hard-to-recycle objects that you can rescue from the landfill. Like Martonosi, most of the people responsible for unusual recycling function independently of ...

DANVILLE; Calif. -- The Crayon Initiative aims to bring happiness to children and the environment by recycling used crayons into new ones. The founder of the Crayon Initiative, Bryan Ware, was at ...