St. Louis Teachers' Recycle Center

How Does Your Donation Help?

Your support and donations help us put our mission into action by:

• Operating, supporting, and promoting use of our Reusable Resources Center in St. Louis, for the collection and distribution of the materials used in motivating creative learning.

• Inspiring and assisting businesses, locally and nationally, in the disposal of unwanted materials in an environmentally-responsible manner.

• Asserting the well-researched but little known importance of creative process over product, guided experience over result, and experience of potential versus conformity in the childhood expression of art;

• Providing training and other development services, locally and nationally, for teachers, parents, child care providers, artists, youth of all ages, and the community at large, in the creative use of discarded resources for teaching, learning, and experiencing art, science, language, and math;

• Traveling to schools, childcare centers, and other venues to deliver developmentally-appropriate workshops allowing children to explore and reflect on the creative process through experiential art.

We advocate educational excellence for the benefit of children through interactive, hands-on experiential learning. To do this, we promote the development of Reusable Resource Center to provide free/low cost instructional materials, donated by businesses, individuals and manufacturers as their unwanted by-products, rejects, overruns and obsolete materials. SLTRC offers creative solutions for problems facing education, business and the environment. Recycling valuable reusable material resources into the hands of teachers and parents, who in turn, will use them with our children to discover new and creative ways of thinking and solving problems. The St. Louis Teachers Recycle Center is irrevocably dedicated to and operated exclusively for non-profit purposes:

• To operate, support and promote use of the Reusable Resources Centers in St. Louis, for the collection and distribution of the materials used in motivating creative learning.

• To assist the Missouri Network of Reuse Centers in establishing and supporting school based Reuse Centers throughout Missouri for the collection and distribution of materials used to motivate creative learning and thinking.

• To assist in establishing and supporting school or community-based Reuse Centers in the United States for the collection and distribution of materials used to motivate creative learning and thinking.

• To promote and provide training and other development services, locally and nationally, for the benefit of teachers, parents, child care providers, artists, youth of all ages, and the community at large, in the creative use of discarded resources for teaching and learning.

• To inspire businesses, locally and nationally, and to assist the greater St. Louis and St Charles communities businesses in the disposal of unwanted materials in an environmentally responsible manner.