SMENCILS are pencils made from rolled sheets of newspaper instead of wood. You can actually see the layers of newspaper when you sharpen them.
Smencils sharpen the same as all other wood pencils and they smell so much better. Not only do they smell great, but they are good for the environment too.
To make a smencil, you roll sheets of newspaper tightly around #2 graphite writing cores until pencils of typical thickness are formed. Then they're hardened - allowing them to be sharpened just like wood pencils. Next, they are soaked with gourmet liquid scents (made by an award winning fragrance company). Once they're dry, the erasers are attached and stickers applied to identify which scent was infused into each Smencil. Last but not lease, each Smencil is put into its own Freshness Tube.
Materials and processes that go into making Smencils are healthy for the environment. In the Smencil manufacturing process, recycled newspapers, environmentally friendly fragrances, recyclable ferrules and biodegradable erasers are used. The scents used to make Smencils are the same as those used to make soaps and candles, which are safe for reasonable personal use as tested by the manufacturers. By using only recyclable plastic, even Smencil packaging is environmentally conscious.
Did you know:
- An average sized cedar tree will make about 172,000 wood pencils.
- 172,000 Smencils can be made from 430 newspapers.
- Recycling a single run of the Sunday New York Times saves about 75,000 trees.
- The average tree can filter about 60 pounds of air pollution per year.
- If everyone in the US recycled just 10% of their newspapers, we would save about 25 million trees each year.
