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Packaging
Discarded?
Most pencils are thrown in the trash.
Distribution
How long does it last?
An average pencil writes about 45, 000 words
Or it can draw a straight line for 35 miles.
Due to cost advantages pencils can be made in poorer countires and many are exported from there to other countries for sale.
Alternatives?
Plastic and Paper is generally used to package pencils. There are variations on the product however. The paper packaging contributes to deforestation.
- Typing/Computers
- Mechanical pencils.
How it's Made
Impacts
- Depleted forest reserves
- Contaminated waterways
- Air pollution from factories
- Herbicides kill many plants in the forests
Where does it come from?
- Most graphite comes from Serbia
- Mined
- Cedar normally comes from California
- 3rd party certification agencies to audit supply chains from the forest
- Forests are clear cut
- What makes up a pencil?
- Indonesia and Malaysia provide rubber for erasers.
- wood (ceder)
- Graphite
- Pumice (eraser)
- Rubber (eraser)
- Aluminum (eraser)