Discover, a published magazine) a chapter, “A Few Words about Mechanical Pencils”, in the book, “How to Sharpen Pencils”, David Rees, the author wrote four words, “Mechanical pencils are bullshit.” I disagree. thesis-Wood-cased pencils cost significantly more, kill trees, leading to a lower amount of oxygen and higher CO2, and also affects students’ learning processes.
point one- wood cased pencils cost way more than mechanical ones
A single pencil sold on David Ree’s website costs 35 USD, 15 dollars more than the book by Rees.
Worldwide, about 14 billion pencils are produced annually, enough to circle the globe more than 62 times.[1] America has its share of pencil pushers, who collectively spent about $900 million on them in 2002.[2]
New American Dream - Pencils and Pens: Get the “write” stuff backed up by senators, congressman, and a former secretary of labour (Riench, Bradley, Velasquez, and others)
Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association (WIMA) and School, Home & Office Products nd a Association (SHOPA) Sept. 2003 Flash Report - US Writing Instruments Industry ReporT
The lowest cost mechanical pencil on Amazon costs 18.1 cents. woodcased are 11.1 cents but one mechanical pencil is equal to 2 ½ wood cased, bic, a mechanical pencil brand claims lets say your mechanical pencil lasts a week, that costs 18.1 cents but if you had used wood cased pencils instead, you would have used 38.01 cents (from 18.1 multiplied by 2 ½) this costs 20.01 cents extra, meaning $10. 38 a year and multiply that by the average life expectancy of 67.88 years, according to the world factbook, which equals to a grand total of $704.59 point 2- wood pencil shavings are messy when they spill students get an excuse to get up every five minutes to sharpen pencils creates loud disruptions in class whenever someone