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Our Mission Trash for Teaching collects clean and safe cast-off materials from manufacturing processes (that would otherwise become trash) and repurposes them as educational resources. With those materials we provide a comprehensive arts education program in local school districts, which includes teacher workshops and classroom instruction. Our programs feature the popular Treasure Truck visit making our materials readily available to teachers and students in the schools, and helping to bridge the gap between the excess of waste created in manufacturing processes and the lack of materials in public education.
Use of our unique materials encourages critical thinking and fuels the imagination by challenging children and teachers to find creative applications for non-traditional objects; these materials offer equally creative applications in all subjects. Our ultimate goal is to unify all community sectors, from children, parents, and teachers to manufacturers, artists and environmentalists by developing sustainable reuse systems that foster creativity in education. Warehouse Location: Trash for Teaching is a 501c(3), nonprofit organization |
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“My 8-12 year-old summer school group used your unique objects to solve all sorts of engineering challenges. One challenge they particularly enjoyed involved building a contraption that sent a marble from the desktop to the floor in the slowest time possible. Using recycled materials sent a very important message to my students that problem solving and design are about creative use of what is at hand, not fancy store bought kits." "This is good stuff for making animals!" |
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