Triconda pencils journey
In this story map, you will see where a triconda pencil comes from and they journey it takes to get to you!
The wood They use for pencils is ceder wood, they find this in east Asia and western north america.This wood is a renewable resource
The graphite used to make the lead on the pencils in found in Ragedara Sri Lanka,Ontario and Quebec Canada.The graphite is made from pure carbon and is a non-renewable resource
The rubber used in pencils is synthetic rubber.It Is made from monomers with petroleum in it and can be found in the U.S.A , japan and Russia it is a non-renewable resource
These are the countries where the pencils are put together
Old pencils can be donated to a nature center where the wood and graphite can be recycled and the medal can be recycled to but most people will just garbage it and it will go to the landfill. .
The environmental impact of making pencils
is not that big but it still has an impact on trees because they're getting cut down. The factories to make pencils create pollution, all the trucks and machines involved in this process and getting all the materials for the eraser and metal from mining.
The impact it has on people
The environmental impact of pencil is related to heavy metals and the use of materials. The release of heavy metals may have toxic effects on humans and the environment. In the case of wooden pencil, production of wooden pencil may exploit the use of natural forest
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actions could be taken to reduce the environmental impact of this extraction
- mechanical pencils create more waste in the end but last longer
- Instead of putting old pencils in the garbage just donate them to a natural donation center
End of life/waste disposal
The lifespan of a wooden pencil is pretty short, while the mechanical one can be used indefinitely. The graphite in pencils will decompose in 100 to 200 hundred years or more if it is compacted tightly in the landfill, The eraser can take more then 50 years to decompose. The average pencil holds enough graphite to draw a line about 35 miles long or to write roughly 45,000 words
