• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      Listen, okay, over 90% of your oh-so-“natural” hedgehog-based pencils are dyed with carcinogenic chromium (pictured in the OP as the yellow color) and act as an environmental contaminant when thrown away. At worst, it’s a lateral change to use plastic.

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        5 hours ago

        I actually had no idea these were a different kind of pencil! The kind I’ve always used are ordinary wooden ones that… well, some people chew up, the graphite in which uses clay, shavings of which are usually fine-ish (maybe not?!) to dispose off anywhere and… some startup, years ago, tried putting plant saplings in.