Teen Collects Candy Wrappers to Help Cousin
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Brittany Lowe, an eighth-grader at Citrus Hills Intermediate School in Corona, has collected candy wrappers — thousands of them — in less than two months. And someday, those wrappers may help people with a genetic muscular condition that most children won’t survive past their first year.
The timing couldn’t have been better as candy wrappers typically appear out of nowhere around Halloween. Since then, Brittany has collected and shipped 32 pounds of wrappers, and has plenty more to send to TerraCycle in New Jersey, which pays two cents per wrapper and then “repurposes” them into binders, notebooks and tote bags.