Colorful Nonprofit Recycles Old Crayons

Bryan Ware stood in his kitchen on a weekday morning with his wife, dad and a close friend. There was a white drop cloth draped on the counter, two steaming metal pots on the stove and orange buckets—one full of ice and the other brimming with water—attached to a 96-hole metal mold that resembled a gigantic cheese grater.

"We learned how to do this the hard way," Ware joked, spooning mountains of purple crayons into one of the pots. Minutes later, he was pouring a pan of steaming, violet goo into the mold.