In managing solid waste, the preferred order of handling it is to reduce, reuse, and recycle. Marilyn Brackney has reused materials since the beginning of her career as an artist and educator. While working as a public school teacher, she often resorted to using solid waste as art materials when she had no money to buy conventional supplies. She launched her art/reuse Web site, The Imagination Factory, in 1996, and since then, millions of people have visited, looking for inexpensive art ideas or ways to encourage kids to reduce, reuse, & recycle.
Online for twelve years, The Imagination Factory was created by artist and teacher, Marilyn Brackney. A longtime advocate of reuse, she’s encouraged children to create art from solid waste since the first Earth Day celebration in 1970. She thinks teaching kids to reuse materials is a fun and entertaining way to foster environmental responsibility.
Brackney says, “I’m pleased to see that adults are starting to reuse and recycle, but I focus my attention on children, because they will more easily adopt these habits and incorporate them into their lifestyles. Kids are the ones who will make a difference in helping to save the environment.”
The Imagination Factory is located at http://www.kid-at-art.com/.
Art is more than a pretty picture!
-Marilyn Brackney
Check it out! You will be glad you did. In general, American families are excellent at teaching their children to be consumers. Many times as consumers, our little ones are learning that EVERYTHING is consumable… right down to that $1.00 toy that breaks after only hours of play. I am thrilled that Marilyn is putting forth so much effort to help parents balance their modeling of consumerism and recycling. What a fun way to teach children to find secondary value in things through reducing, reusing and recycling!
The Imagination Factory
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