Scrap is special because you can get all this junk
and make it to Art
It's really cool because you're
making cool stuff with stuff that you
recycle to not throw away too much stuff
and you could use it again to make like projects
You say you are going to make art out of trash
they are like ugh! that's kind of gross you know and then I
and then I put out all these sparkly
buttons and Marty Grass beads and things
that they can use to decorate their
projects and it's like it's like handy
to them they're like super excited
in fact one of the kindergarteners today um
said can I get more surprises
Scrap was created 37 years ago by Amy Turner
and we are actually the very first creative
reused nonprofit in the world basically
she was in charge of placing artists
into schools and she had the funding to
pay the artists but not enough for the
for supplies so these artists were like
scrounging around looking for materials and
then she saw that there were businesses
throwing away paper with the wrong logo
on it or something that the kids could
definitely draw on and then she
connected the two and here we are
It's really kind of a problem that
schools don't have the supplies that
they need the budgets are all cut and
the teachers that are still there
are left with very few resources
especially in the public schools
When I describe Scrap I'm like oh
there's like barrels of buttons and you
know all these great fabrics and papers
that somebody donated that was you know
in their closet or left over from a
project they were working on
I think it makes kids use their own inspiration to
be more creative and I think that
inspires the teachers so I teach
teachers how they can make books with
kids and in their classroom
But I want people when they come to Scrap to to
have ideas but I want them to look for
other ideas to go a bit further I always find new
ideas here I mean that's what this is
We actually divert um half a million pounds
which is 250 tons of materials
every single year and we've diverted 4
million pounds of materials in the past
12 years or so
It's uh way better than going to the
art supply store, your money goes a lot
further and you're re using all this cool stuff
Thank you! Thank you so much. Thank you, Take care.