The Creative Chicago Reuse Exchange
Initiator(s)
Barbara Koenen
Description
The Creative Chicago Reuse Exchange (CCRx) is a 501c3 nonprofit that works with local and national businesses to source materials for teachers and non-profit organizations, to support creative thinking in our youth, and to reduce waste. CCRx educates and empowers the public to rethink surplus through events and creative reuse programming and workshops.
You've heard of the three r's: reduce, reuse, recycle. The Creative Chicago Reuse Exchange is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that is focused on reuse. We believe that "trash is just a failure of imagination."
Location
United States
Goals
CCRx inspires creativity, empowerment, efficiency and environmentalism by reimagining and redistributing surplus to folks who really need it. We believe that trash is just "a failure of imagination."
Beneficial outcomes
Inspiring creativity, empowerment, efficiency and environmentalism by reimagining and redistributing surplus to folks who really need.
Maintained by
Barbara Koenen
Users
school children, teachers, non-profit organisations