A brilliant way to reuse leftovers pencils





Brian Weir, inventive dad from San Francisco, invented an ingenious way to reuse residues of wax crayons, which are thrown out of schools and restaurants. Brian melts residues and recycled into new crayons for children in hospitals.

Every year, restaurants and schools throw up to 34,000 kg of wax crayons in the trash

A brilliant way to reuse leftovers pencils



The idea of refining came in 2011, when Bryan was celebrating a birthday in the restaurant. The waiter brought his sons some new wax crayons, then dad asked what to do with crayons after their children leave. It turned out that almost untouched pencils are in the trash.

A brilliant way to reuse leftovers pencils



Brian found a great solution — it melts the remnants of pencils

A brilliant way to reuse leftovers pencils



Then pour the mixture into special molds

A brilliant way to reuse leftovers pencils



And each time receives 96 new wax crayons

A brilliant way to reuse leftovers pencils



These pencils are thicker, and children with special needs easier to capture them

A brilliant way to reuse leftovers pencils



The finished pencils are transported to California hospital

A brilliant way to reuse leftovers pencils



Already delivered more than 2000 boxes of pencils

A brilliant way to reuse leftovers pencils



"If these pencils make children forget, if only for 10 minutes that they are in the hospital, we successfully completed the work," says Brian. published

A brilliant way to reuse leftovers pencils



A brilliant way to reuse leftovers pencils



 

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