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 Trash for Teaching provides a comprehensive arts education program in local school districts, which includes teacher workshops and classroom instruction. Their programs feature the popular Treasure Truck visit making 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 these 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. Trash for Teaching’s 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.