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Dear Reader,
It is, perhaps, the world’s greatest collaboration: Crayons rescued from landfill winding up in the hands of children stuck in the hospital.
And it’s the brainchild of a dad. Watching his kids color with brand new crayons on a restaurant menu one night while out to dinner, Brian Ware wondered whether the restaurant gave new crayons to every kid, and if so, where the used crayons ended up. He later learned that most head to the landfill, where the petroleum-based paraffin remains for millenia. So he got busy figuring out how he could remanufacture old crayons and get them into the hands of pediatric patients who would love them again.
Today, The Crayon Initiative has more than 700 volunteers who have transformed 57,210,717 discarded crayons into new crayons for 780,400 young patients. Want to give crayons? Time? Money?
Color Dot grateful for Brian Ware and his volunteers — today’s Climate Champs.
Kaleidoscopically,
Dot
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