Paper Mate: The Green Lineup of Pens and Pencils - - Used Mirel (a Genere of Bioplastic) Just to Help Its Users Reduce Their Carbon Footrpints

With our daily schedules driven by the need for money and power, it isn’t more than often that we forget our responsibilities towards the environment even when the current climatic changes are yapping of the perils man will have to face in near future. We rely on technology to make things easy, even with our responsibilities of keeping earth healthy green and clean. Paper mate realized this too and scooped out biodegradable pens and pencils just to help its users reduce their carbon footrpints.

Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association (WMA) spilled some interesting statistics which said that a huge number of plastic pens never made it to dustbins and eventually landfills. Because given the fact they people buy it in bulk and really don’t care when they misplace one or two. So eventually this form of non-perishable garbage just lies around without even making its presence felt. But the biodegradable line of pens and pencils whose components would be assimilated in soil or home compost just over a period of year.

Paper Mate has used Mirel, a genre of bioplastic made from corn sugar produced from a corn wet milling process. Microbes use that polymer PHA which is present in Mirel to store energy and eat it up when in need of energy. You don’t have to create a high-tech facility to materialize the process of decomposition. The normal ambient temperatures in house environments would take care of that. Most of the pen and pencil components would be biodegradable, but users will still have to open up and separate the non-biodegradable stuff and thrash it.

The green lineup of pens and pencils is available and has retractable ball point pen available with black, with ink options of blue, red and purple, and mechanical pencils in 0.5 or 0.7mm lead sizes.