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Where mechanical ones ~ cost $2.07 per pencil. Not to mentions the cost of pencil lead,it costs ~ $2.00 for one package of pencil lead. Pencil lead on avg. lasts ~ 1-2 weeks depending on how big you write and how hard, it may take less time for it to last. Mechanical pencils lead also breaks easier than a wooden pencils lead would. There is also a hassle in having to find your lead or boring from someone else. I would no from first hand experience how frustrating it can be to look for lead only to find out that the size you have is incorrect and no one has your lead size. Causing you to miss out on valuable test taking time. Wooden pencils also provide uniqueness a quality you should want in a pencil. That feeling you get from showing up to school with an amazingly cool pencil can make you feel …show more content…
The greatest brand ever, it’s been around ever since my mom's been born and she was born in 1962. The wooden pencils are a reliable brand as well as are environmentally friendly. Pencils that are composed of wood that are biodegradable meaning that over the years they will decompose. Wooden pencils can take up to 100 years to decompose sometimes as low as 50 years, depending on the type of wood used. The yellow gloss over a pencil is made out of an organic liquid. It gets its color from a seed popularly found in India. Which can be very beneficial in our ecosystem not to mention that the metal a wooden pencil has a rounds it eraser can also be recycled. Wooden pencils can all be made out of other material, it doesn't necessarily need to be wood there are also pencils that are made out of eraser that can benefit the user when in need of an eraser. These pencils have also been made out of newspaper. To be specific Japanese newspaper, regular pencils are very beneficial to our recycling system. Unlike mechanical pencils that are made out of plastic like the papermate brand. They have plastic which can not be as easily biodegradable like the wooden ones. It takes 450 years for plastic to decompose causing the world to have a large amount of waste. Unlike the wooden ones where you can sharpen it until it no longer looks broken plastic ones can't be fixed causing people to throw them away. Not to mention that lead in the mechanical