Newspaper Pencil
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Used Newspaper |
| HOW IT'S MADE: |
Whole newspaper sheets are rolled around a high quality No. 2 lead. No mulching or mixing with toxic chemical is required. A special adhesive formula is used to bind the newsprint together into a cohesive trunk -- as hard as wod. Approximately four pencils can be made from one broadsheet of recycled newsprint. After drying, the pencils are smoothed to a consistent round barrel. Newsprint images are still visible on the pencil surface. U.S. made quality ferrules and rubber erasers are attached to the pencil end. Over time, natural oils from your hand will tend to highlight the interesting newsprint. |
| HOW IT WORKS: |
Sharpens easily -- just like wood -- with regular pencil sharpener. |
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Based on 2 reviews.
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ABC News
Change your trash to cash! (January 8, 2009)
You can help make recycled or rather Upcycled products. And by doing so, you'll help save the environment and make some money for your favorite school or charity at the same time.
The students the Bridge Academy of New Jersey transformed garbage into gold.
They collected all kinds of trashed materials and then sent them to Terracycle for money that will go right back to their...
Cause Marketing
Recycled Cause Marketing (January 7, 2009)
Capri Sun, the Kraft Foods brand that packages portable juice drinks in those aluminum-polyethylene pouches has teamed with TerraCycle, the innovative recycler, that promises to keep juice pouches out of the waste stream, while paying schools $0.02 cents per pouch.
[Oops. My bad. That makes it seem like Kraft is actually doing some work here when in fact all the heavy lifting is being done...
Las Vegas Education
TerraCycling: Recycling in the Classroom (January 7, 2009)
TerraCycle collects trash that would otherwise find its way to a landfill and, instead, uses those items to create new products. By mailing recyclables to the company (preferably in used containers), schools can earn approximately $0.02 per item. Some of the items they collect include:
* Drink Pouches (e.g., Capri Sun)
* Cookie Wrappers (e.g., Oreo)
* Corks
* Yogurt Containers...
Impact Lab
TerraCycle Creates Amazing Products from Waste (January 6, 2009)
When I think about good companies that have education, people and the environment in mind, one of the companies I think about first is Terracycle.
Terracycle creates amazing products from recycled goods. Terracycle began in 2001. Two Princeton University students (now co-founders of Terracycle) Tom Szaky and Jon Beyer, inspired by a worm box, set out to prove that a business could financially...
Christian School Products
TerraCycle (January 5, 2009)
TerraCycle runs free collection fundraisers that will pay your school to collect packaging from common foods such as drink pouches, cookie wrappers and granola bags. Billions of these non recyclable pieces of packaging gets thrown out every year. TerraCycle with the help of sponsors like Honest Tea And Bear Naked will pay you to help fight this loss of resources....
The Herald
School winners (January 5, 2009)
Second-graders collected empty juice pouches, then sent them to Terracycle, which recycles the pouches, making them into useful items. The students also sent the money earned from selling the pouches to World Concern, in order to buy chicks for a family in a developing country. When the chicks become laying hens, their eggs provide food for the family as well as a steady income from selling the extra...
Inhabitots
HONEST KIDS… It’s Good For You (January 5, 2009)
HONEST Tea (a company with a commendable social responsibility statement) has a new line of organic, low-sugar, fruit-flavored thirst quenchers that offer “a great-tasting alternative to sugar-laden beverages.” Even though at the end of every HONEST KIDS ingredient list (filtered water, organic cane sugar, organic juice concentrates, asorbic acid and something they refer to as “organic flavor”)...
As It Stands
Today in The Times-Standard: Recycling Woes (January 5, 2009)
Changes are coming this year. The new administration will be more environmentally conscious. Most Americans appreciate the fact that recycling is necessary, and hopefully will not change their habits during this rough stretch in the economy.
I’d like to see more American manufacturers like “Terracycle” in Trenton, New Jersey (http://www.terracycle.net ), that make things out of recycled...
Furbootie
TerraCycle (January 5, 2009)
I saw a storey on this company yesterday and am THRILLED! Check them out. http://www.terracycle.net/index.htm
They have a great system to encourage children to recycle. You can send in your empty wrappers and see your (OK maybe not YOURS) but your wrappers recycled into a product at Target.
How freaking cool is that?...
Huffington Post
Greening Hollywood: TerraCycle's Big Green Business (January 5, 2009)
At Santa Monica's recent Eco Gift Festival, Tom Szaky, uber-EcoPreneur, sat down with Greening Hollywood for an interview. Szaky, Founder of TerraCycle, was both a featured speaker and a vendor at the event. Arianna Huffington was also a featured speaker at the Festival where she packed the room with a standing-room-only crowd of fans.
TerraCycle Sees No Trash
Beauty is in the eyes of the...
Packaging Digest
Entrepreneur Tom Szaky's company TerraCycle turns trash into treasure (December 29, 2008)
AMY ROBACH, co-host:
You've heard the saying, "One person's trash is another one's treasure." Well, one entrepreneur embodies that saying in a big way. NBC chief environmental affairs correspondent Anne Thompson has more.
ANNE THOMPSON reporting:
In the 250 tons of trash we create each year, Tom Szaky sees gold.
Mr. TOM SZAKY: You can take this material and you can flatten it together...
CT Green Scene
My Cup of (Green Organic) Tea (December 29, 2008)
I really love the work that Tom Szaky is doing with Terracycle, and it feels like 2008 has been a big year for them. Terracycle is building a booming business that takes garbage and makes things out of it. What's more, they're not afraid to do it on a large scale, working with large corporate partners. Capri Sun juice pouches are being made into lunch boxes, and Bear Naked Granola bags are being...
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