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terracycle.net - 11/2/2009

Newspaper Pencils

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Let’s rewrite history! Each year 80,000 trees are destroyed to produce more than 14 billion pencils. Every pencil in this box is made of 100%: recycled newspaper still bearing the print it was rolled from. Each sharpening reveals a new layer of newspaper. Using recycled newspaper instead of ...

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