Have you ever been to a classroom, Sunday school room, or even in your own child’s room and found a box of crayon “bits”? Often without wrappers, these stubs are still technically useful, but they are hard to grip and no one knows what the colors are. Thus they tend to remain unused until they are thrown away. But there are options to tossing unusable crayon stubs. They can be recycled at home or at special centers for this very purpose. Here are some ways this can be done.

1. Crazy Crayons

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You use a little of the hotel soap. Does the rest just go in the trash? I always assumed so.

Clean the World is recycling it, sterilizing and reforming bars as needed, and sending it to countries where a little hand-washing could cut down diarrhea to the point of saving thousands of lives daily.

Read the article at Treehugger.