Child's Voice Students Kick Off Marker Recycling Effort

Child's Voice students and staff are excited to announce the launch of our Crayola ColorCycle - an amazing program devised to re-purpose used markers rather than sending them to landfills.

Since 2013, the Crayola ColorCycle® program has re-purposed more than 70 tons of expended markers in the US and Canada, and uses the most advanced plastic conversion technologies available today to make wax compounds for asphalt and roofing shingles as well as to generate electricity that can be used to heat homes, cook food, and power vehicles.

Child’s Voice, located in Wood Dale and Chicago, helps children with hearing loss learn to listen and speak. Students wear hearing aids and/or cochlear implants and programs use a child-focused, research-based curriculum, all with the end goal of transitioning graduates back to their local, neighborhood schools.

All around Child's Voice, students and teachers will be collecting used markers that are ready to be discarded. Please help support our efforts by saving your used markers for us. We can re-purpose any brand of marker, highlighter and dry erase marker. Drop-off boxes are located at Child's Voice in Wood Dale. If our Chicago location is more convenient, feel free to drop them there too.

Turn Markers into Energy with us! #Crayola #CrayolaColorCycle

To make a contribution to change the lives of the students at Child’s Voice, please visit www.ChildsVoice.org or https://donate.childsvoice.org. For more information on the Crayola ColorCycle® Program, please visit: www.crayola.com/colorcycle.

Child’s Voice

For 23 years, Child’s Voice has been changing lives of children with hearing loss and their families. Child’s Voice has grown from a school serving only six students, to a thriving comprehensive program providing services to over 390 children with hearing loss from birth through age eight. The mission of Child’s Voice is to empower children with hearing loss to be successful in all educational and social settings by optimizing their listening, speaking and academic skills. www.childsvoice.org.

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