Color Cycle Wrap Up!

It has been a successful year of collecting markers, expos, highlighters and sharpies at the middle school!  What started as a commercial I saw on television ended up saving a total of 44 POUNDS of garbage from going into a landfill!  Instead it was turned into clean burning fuel!  Visit Crayola to learn more about the program.

Here were the collection numbers by quarter..
Quarter 1:   8 pounds
Quarter 2:   8.5 pounds
Quarter 3: 11.5 pounds
Quarter 4: 16 pounds

Next year, I think that Color Cycle will 'turn it up' and expand our efforts!  What will you do at your school to help the environment?

Color Cycle, A student lead recycling program.

A few months ago, I was watching TV one night and saw a commercial for a marker recycling program sponsored by Crayola.  Recycling has always been something I have been interested in and decided to check it out.  Turns out it was really easy to sign-up and start the program at school.  I gathered a few of my most motivated 8th graders, cleaned out the local Deal$ store of small garbage cans and placed bins in EVERY classroom at my middle school with the sign below attached to it.

This past month, we sent our first box of markers to Crayola to be recycled!  We have collected 16.8 pounds of markers, highlighters and expo markers so far this year!

 The kids were really excited about having a box of old markers that didn't work!

 We taped the box up, printed off the FREE shipping label and scheduled the pickup at our school.  Off they go to become clean burning fuel and NOT to a landfill.