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Old crayons get a new life while adding a little color to the lives of children in the hospital

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Crayons: they come in all of the colors of the rainbow and you probably used one before you could even write. Now, California-based nonprofit The Crayon Initiative is giving ...
FOX 10 Phoenix

The Crayon Initiative: Recycling old crayons for sick children

GLENDALE, Ariz. - A colorful volunteer project for Valley insurance workers was a way to get crayons in hospitals. Red, yellow, green, blue and orange, all the colors, all the crayons. "Here it's ...
News9

Local AAA Employees Show True Colors For ‘The Crayon Initiative’

Hundreds of AAA employees in Oklahoma City spent their day sorting crayons, as they participated in The Crayon Initiative. The work they are doing is helping sick kids. Discarded and forgotten by the ...
ABC7 San Francisco

This California nonprofit collects used crayons that would otherwise end up in the landfill and recycles into new crayons for children's hospitals across the U.S.

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 ...
East Bay Times

Recycled crayons initiative expanding to downtown Danville facility

DANVILLE – About two years ago, Bryan Ware told his local newspaper how he decided to collect crayons left behind at restaurants, melt them down, reshape them and then donate them to children at ...
abc7NY

This California nonprofit collects used crayons that would otherwise end up in the landfill and recycles into new crayons for children's hospitals across the U.S.

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 ...