One plastic product we use and discard without much thought regularly is the ballpoint pen.
The focus of the UN Environment’s campaign for World Environment Day 2018 is reducing single-use and disposable plastic, which accounts for 50 per cent of plastic we use including plastic bags, containers, forks and spoons, cups, straws and sanitary pads.
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Recently I have been using an eco-friendly pen called the Open. The pen is made of waste paper instead of plastic. It is a plantable pen that holds a seed at its tip which makes each pen equal to a tree.”
– Atulya Kundana, Teacher, The Study School.