10 Let’s Talk Trash! MAR/ APR 2019
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Crayons...
Edwin Binney , working with his wife, Alice Stead Binney, came up with their famous Crayola brand of crayons. Alice came
up with the name Crayola by combining the French word for chalk, craie, with the first part of oleaginous, the oily paraffin wax used to make the crayon. The first craika crayons were created with dry carbon black and different waxes. The first box of Crayola Crayons was produced in 1903 as an 8 count box. It sold for a nickel and contained the colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, brown and black. Where did the brand name Crayola originate? Alice (Stead) Binney coined the name CRAYOLA Crayons. The name comes from “craie”, the French word for chalk, and “ola” from oleaginous. How to dispose old crayons... You may be surprised how many items you use on a frequent basis that can actually be recycled. Crayons are one of those items that people often discard in the trash, but they can easily be recycled. Crayon recycling was introduced by the National Crayon Recycle Program, which was created to keep more than 45,000 pounds of crayons from ending up in landfills. The NCRP takes old, rejected and broken crayons and recycles them into new ones using a simple process that can further benefit children across the country. Since the rise in crayon-recycling knowledge, many facilities have opened their doors to provide more opportunities for you to recycle in order to benefit the life of a child. So, before you discard your art tools into the trash bin, make a conscious decision to further the lifespan of the crayon in the hands of a new young artist. Taking a proactive approach to reducing environmental issues can change the world, one crayon at a time.
What’s in a crayon? Wax (paraffin, microcrystalline, polyethylene, beeswax, ozokerite, japan, carnauba), colorant (pigment or dye), stearic acid (palmitic acid), tallow (beef), filler (kaolin, talc). Water soluble wax crayons contain an emulsifier wax and polyethylene glycol. National crayon day is March 31! Crayola has a tendency to retire old crayon colors on this day. From 1990 through March 2017, Crayola has retired over 50 different colors which include lemon yellow, blue gray, maize, violet blue, raw umber, orange-red, green blue, and orange-yellow in 1990; magic mint, blizzard blue, teal blue, and mulberry in 2003; and dandelion in 2017.
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