How To Recycle Markers with Crayola Colorcycle Marker Program

Teachers if you are creating your classroom job list for the school year, make sure to add an empty marker collection bin in the classroom, because the “Recycler” job will have some new duties! The Crayola Color Cycle marker program will teach children all about how to recycle markers.

Every year children head back to school and classroom lists always include purchasing markers, crayons, glue, pencils, pens and all sorts of folders, binders and paper. Somehow over just a few years in our home we have collected enough markers to fill an entire drawer. Working in the school system, I’m in and out of classrooms every day that each have a large bin of markers.

I use a lot of crayons and markers every day, and  I always seem to have the knack for picking out the dried up marker. I literally spend time every year testing the markers in the bin, throwing away the duds.

Crayola just released a new initiative called the Crayola Colorcycle program that makes it possible for children in  K-12 schools nationwide to recycle markers that can transformed into clean energy.

How to recycle markers as part of the Crayola Colorcycle Marker Program:

1. Visit www.crayola.com/colorcycle to sign up for the program and receive access to additional educational materials

2. Collect used markers in a bin somewhere in the classroom or school building

3. Pack markers in a box

4. Print free, pre-paid, FedEx Ground labels from the website and mail back all used markers to Crayola

5. You have now joined forces with Crayola to create a clean energy fuel source

Fun Facts provided by Crayola

• One box of eight (8) recycled markers creates enough energy to prepare a breakfast that consists of brewing a pot of coffee, frying an egg and making two pieces of toast
• 308 markers produces 1 gallon of fuel, which is enough to power an SUV (consider 15MPG) for 15 miles
• If a classroom recycles 193 markers, that is enough to move a city bus (consider 5MPG) for three miles

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