According to the Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association (WIMA) over three billion retractable ball point pens and over 500 million mechanical pencils were shipped in the US in 2007. Many have ...

Although we are moving towards a paperless society, that dream is still a long ways off, and a lot of Bics are going to be employed before it arrives. The pens we take for granted sell for a hundred a ...

OAK BROOK, Ill. Writing instrument maker PaperMate is going green. The new Paper Mate Biodegradable products are the latest step in Paper Mate's ongoing commitment to the environment. Paper Mate also ...

A local organisation here is giving new meaning to the old "pen is mightier than the sword" adage in its fight to save the environment. ECO-FRIENDLY INNOVATION: Solution to Change members ...

Amala Jose, a college student from Idukki, Kerala, has created an innovative biodegradable pen called PenCanvas, aiming to reduce plastic waste caused by everyday items, Onmanorama News. A former ...

An El Segundo maker of bio-based plastics has agreed to supply its resin to the manufacturer of one of the world’s first biodegradable pens. Cereplast Inc. says it inked a deal with S.R. Promocionais ...

Youngsters have been using a new pen which is completely biodegradable and gives them a hand with the gardening. Thompson Building Centres, based in South Shields and Sunderland, has taken its ...

Italian studio Carlo Ratti Associati (CRA) has designed a concept for a compostable marker pen comprising natural fibres and a water-based, edible ink that would break down within six months. The ...