BIC has manufactured a pencil made from recycled polystyrene that is being marketed under its Ecolutions product line. The plastics recycling firm Axion Polymers, Bramhall, U.K., supplied the ...

The next pencil your child brings home from school could be made from someone else’s garbage. As Baltimore-area school systems encourage their students to protect the environment, school officials are ...

Chris Stangland, president and CEO of TreeSmart Industries Inc., is raising $150,000 to move operations of his company's clever recycled-newspaper pencils home to Oregon. Chris Stangland, president ...

French student Ariane Prin developed a fantastic project while studying at London’s Royal College of Art that recycles the University’s waste into fun and colorful pencils. ‘From Here For Here’ is an ...

I’m looking for a place that accepts pencil stubs (one to two inches long) to recycle into new pencils. I’ve found recycled pencils online — made from denim, plastic, recovered wood, and paper ...

Some sustainable savvy can turn the back-to-school frenzy into an educational opportunity. Summer is rapidly drawing to a close, and that means it’s time for back-to-school shopping. But before you ...

Inspired by the classic solid wood slide top pencil case, designer and craftsman Santiago Morahan re-designed this ‘old school’ classic out of cardboard. Founder of Disenio Cartonero, a brand that ...

The bins at local retailers are brimming with back-to-school goodies: markers, papers and notebooks galore, all in eye-catching patterns and colors to lure shoppers, big and small. But seriously, do ...