With back to school shopping in full swing, parents are trying to fulfill the yearly supply list. I know that as a parent, even when crayons, colored pencils, and the like aren’t on the list, I still take advantage of the back to school sales and stock up for our household stash. This year, you can buy the same Crayola products but feel better about what they’re doing for the environment. Crayola is using solar power to make crayons, markers from recycled bottle caps, and colored pencils from reforested wood.Speaking of the colored pencils, for every tree used, one of the same species will be planted in its place. If you’ve already bought Crayola products, you may have noticed some changes to the packaging. For example, the marker barrels are now black instead of white. This allows for more recycled bottle caps to be used. If you’d like to learn more, you can watch this video:
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We’ve gone to packing almost completely “green” lunchboxes and have explained to our son that doing so minimizes the amount of garbage we create. (Especially when he’s bugging for tiny packs of snacks in the store!)
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We garden, everyone in the family.
We recycle. One of the things my son likes to do is pick up trash in the community and put it in the garbage can. I should start carrying gloves and bags everywhere we go!
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We go on nature walks.
We try to recycle, and reuse everything we possibly can. We are teaching our son to respect the environment in these ways so far.
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