Girl Scout troops in Quincy, Michigan, have earned their Bronze Award by organizing a recycling project to minimize their carbon footprint and leave a lasting impact on their school and community.
Last year, the girls participated in ColorCycle by Crayola by collecting used markers to send to the company, according to The Daily Reporter.
Crayola, Pennsylvania, partners with JBI Inc., New York, to melt down the dry plastic markers and produce diesel fuel. The ColorCycle initiative has attracted hundreds of schools across the country to recycle used markers, eliminating hundreds of tons of markers from landfills, the company says.
The troops designed collection boxes, made a presentation at a staff meeting and handed out small collection boxes to each classroom in their elementary school. Within a year, the troops recycled 1,509 used markers through the program.
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