This inventive dad, Bryan Ware from San Francisco had the brilliant idea for what to do with left over crayons. He came up with his idea in 2011 when he was celebrating his birthday at a restaurant with his two sons, while they were eating the waiter brought his sons crayons to play with, and Bryan asked what happens to these crayons when the kids are done with them. The answer started the Crayon Initiative, they are all thrown out to the garbage. Now he melts them down and creates new crayons that he delivers to hospitals all over the city. More Info : Crayoninitiative.org | Facebook | TwitterÂ
Every year, 75,000 tons of crayons get thrown away by schools and restaurants
Bryan Ware in action – melting the old crayons down
Than he pours them into special molds
He is able to create 96 new crayons every time he does this
The new crayons are thicker and bigger to hold by kids with special needs
The finished product gets delivered to hospitals throughout California
They have already delivered more than 2,000 boxes!
” If these crayons give them an escape from that hospital room for ten minutes, we did our job” Says Bryan
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