A pencil made from recycled paper has been developed in what is described as the first major structural advance in pencil composition in more than 100 years. Composed of recycled newspaper and cardboard fibers, the pencil looks and feels like an ordinary pencil, according to the marketer, Eberhard Faber, of Parsippany, N.J. It is scheduled to be available beginning in late August.
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It took the company years to develop the sbustitute for a traditional wood casing. The challenge was to develop a material that could be sharpened as easily as a wood pencil and that was not prone to snap.Faber expects the new EcoWriter pencils to account for 5 to 15 percent of its pencil sales volume in the coming year.