Maspeth, NY 718-416-1656
About 40 students in the San Rafael, California elementary
school called Sun Valley have been promoting an online petition to have
Crayola, a subsidiary of Hallmark, develop a “take-back” program for used-up
markers.
Principal Julie Harris said last Wednesday that the student
group has been meeting at lunchtime for a couple of weeks to discuss the
project and monitor the petition’s progress. The petition on Change.org has
more than 60,000 signatures by Saturday (http://goo.gl/6z6Qb).
According to Harris, the students plan to present the petition to Crayola.
Crayola has taken notice of this petition, but according to
a spokesperson for the company, although the encourage children to share their
ideas, the company has no plans to offer a recycling programs for its markers.
The spokesperson also mentioned that they do not have the
facilities or a process to recycle these markets, but the markets can be
recycled at a facility that accepts that type of plastic.
Crayola is also doing their part to be green in other ways.
They use solar energy to manufacture about one billion of the three billion
crayons it makes each year and their markers are used with recycled plastic.
What do you think about this petition? Is this something
that you would be interested in doing? Let us know your thoughts on the Boro-Wide Recycling Facebook Wall, linked HERE.
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