He repurposes old, unusable crayon wax into new crayons. ... 2015) – A dad does not want crayons in restaurants to go to waste, so he recycles and distributes them to kids in California.

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The melted wax is then poured into molds to make new crayons. “Each mold holds 96 crayons, so we can crank out about 1,000 crayons an hour,” he says. “I spend every spare hour now doing this.

Crayola crayons were invented by cousins Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith, who had formed Binney & Smith in 1885 (interestingly, National Crayon Day, which took place last month, is held on the ...

A shoulder to crayon: Artist carves intricate busts of miniature characters out of children’s colouring sticks. Hoang Tran, from California, USA, left a career in dentistry to become an artist ...

Vegetable Crayons are made from rice bran oil and wax, byproducts of the rice polishing process. Coloring comes from discarded produce, like the dregs from squeezed blackcurrant juice.

The crayon was much thicker than a traditional crayon, with a more triangular shape, ... Gannon students create crayons for children with disabilities. Staff Reporter. Erie Times-News.