Welcome...
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Let's take a look at crayons and our enviroment:
- Most kids only use about 5% of a crayon before it is relagated to the crayon bin never to be touched again. (usually once the tip is used the rest of the crayon is never touched)
- Most crayons are made from parafin wax (a petroleum by-product) or even worse plastic. These take a long time to break down (biodegrade) in our land fills.
- On average by the age of eleven a child has accumulated a crayon bin containing between 4 - 5 pounds of crayons they will never use again.
- If we are going green let's make sure our kids are going green. Show them how to peel the wrappers on the crayons and use most of the crayon. Show our children how to walk the walk and become more environmentally friendly.
How is TheCrayonBin.com Eco-Friendly?
- Of course all the crayons are recycled from well loved crayons.
- All shipping boxes is recycled shoe boxes or previously used shipping boxes.
- All package materials are reused or repurposed.
- The packaging for our party favor sets, thank you crayon sets and 3-6 crayon sets are paper so that once the crayons are removed the wrapper can be recycled.
- All boxes we give out for the Crayons-4-Crayons Recycling Program are shoe boxes recovered from shoe stores.
- The crayon wrappers are recycled into Fire Starters so that during the production process we have little to no waste.
Our Business...
TheCrayonBin.com Commitment:
We are a family-operated business that developed out of a the need to keep crayons out of our landfills. We are dedicated to this through our Crayons-4-Crayons recycling program. Close to 3 billion crayons are sold every year by just one company... How many of those are ending up in our landfills?
With everyone "Going Green" why not start it with our kids. If they learn to recycle at a young age it will become second nature to them as they become adults.
TheCrayonBin.com Business
We are in the business of recycling broken, stubbed and well loved crayons. We recycle them into different shapes (animals, stars, hearts, shells, sports and more). These are our "Recolor Our World" crayons.
Our crayons can be purchased through our Etsy.com shop, at craft shows we attend, at retailers. We offer a wide variety of crayons and sets:
- Party Favor Sets - these can be personalized with the party child's name.
- Restaurant Sets - own a restaurant? Why not offer Crayon Bin Crayons and help the environment.
- Fire Prevention Sets - can be given out during Fire Prevention week in October.
- 64 Crayon Sets - for birthday gifts or holiday presents.
- Holiday Sets - for Valentine's Day, Halloween and Christmas.
- Fundraising - need funds for your group or organization? Crayon Bin crayons are a great fundraising tool.
Families and faculty from the schools participating in our Crayons-4-Crayons Recycling Program get discounts on purchases from TheCrayonBin Shop. Please contact the program coordinator in your school district for the discount code you can use at checkout.
We also recycle them into very special crayons called "Palm Crayons". These are oversized crayons made specially for those individuals that have difficulties with fine motor skills. Please see our Products page for more details.
Specialty Palm Crayons
Our Crayons-4-Crayons Program...
is a great community service program and educational program for kids and adults. For every pound (a little more then 100 crayons) you will receive a set of new Recolor Our World Crayons made from recycled crayons.
Let's help the environment...
Every child has crayons, there everywhere!!! Rather then discarding them why not let "The Crayon Bin" recycle them. We all know that when we discard or throw things in the trash they end up in the landfills. Why not try to recycle and reuse to the extent that we can, to keep as much as we can from being placed into the landfills. We read about it all the time with landfills closing because they have reached their capacity. Then the waste management companies look for other locations to place another landfill and no one wants a landfill in their "backyard". So lets recycle what we can and keep things like crayons out of the landfills.
TheCrayonBin.com started recycling crayons in February 2003. Run by Andrew Santos with the help and support of his
wife Amy and their two sons Ronnie and Devin. The purpose behind the company is to keep
crayons from ending up in landfills.