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Pen facts
Pens, highlighters and markers are difficult to recycle (but they can) because they are small and constructed of various metals, plastics and chemicals. It may seem like a small amount of waste but it adds up.
According to Green Seal’s Choose Green Report published in January 1998, “every year Americans discard 1.6 million pens. Placed end to end, they would stretch 151 miles — equivalent to crossing the state of Rhode Island almost 4 times!”
What are the options?
1.Reduce the number of pens used. In other words, don’t lose your pens, don’t leave the lid off your marker, and write with them until the very last drop.
2.Buy reuseable, refillable pens rather than disposable pens.
3.Recycle the component parts. I suppose it is technically possible to disassemble each pen and separately recycle the metal and plastic. This extremely time consuming process would likely still result in certain parts such as the used pen cartridge ending up in the landfill.
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Pen manufacturer Linc starts a responsible initiative to recycle discarded plastic pens
Save that pen!
Divya Dhamija
AUGUST 2013
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| Write Choices : Though this is the digital age, it's is also the age of the greatest consumption of pens in history. From that Cross your grandad owned and treasured from childhood, to the once respected 'fountain pen'; today, most buy pens in packs of 5 and 10, cheap plastic 'gel pens' that exhaust quickly, cannot be refilled, and have us reaching for a new one... |
Linc Pens and Plastic Limited, one of the leading manufacturers in the sector of the writing instrument industry started a project “Refill More” in the year 2010, towards its commitment to saving the environment through its CSR initiative. The idea for this green initiative was conceived by Mr. Deepak Jalan, the Managing Director of Linc Pen and Plastics Ltd.
The thought behind this unique project was to encourage the customers to use more refills instead of discarding their disposable pens, thereby reducing the usage of plastic in the environment.
Linc’s Varun Sharma says, “It is an ongoing campaign where the young school and college students are a part, as they constitute the majority of the consumers. Hence, drop boxes have been placed in many of the city schools including- the La Martiniere School (both girls and boys), Modern High School, The Assembly of God Church School and many others, where the students can drop off their disposable pens and refills which instead of going to the landfills will get recycled by the company. Also, similar drop boxes have been placed in the company’s office branches and stores.”
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Graffiti on a wall, encouraging the refilling of pens.
Lately, the Assembly of God Church School’s Nature club (The Deepwoods) has taken the initiative in raising awareness among the people to stop plastic or toxic pollution. Joining Linc’s campaign they have been successful in taking their first step, i.e. plastic pen recycling.
“The pens that we throw away cause soil pollution. Linc Pens Private limited has a recycle unit for which they are accepting used pens. So, if we could send them for recycling, then we can save our soil from getting toxic pollutants” said Mrs. Rupa Pandit in a letter, inviting neighbouring The Park English School to be a part of the plastic pen recycling project. The Park has joined up, too, and “are glad to be a part of such an initiative.”
At AG School, the students come up each day with lots of old pens, sketch pens etc, which is collected by the two representatives and stored at the school office. When a considerable amount of collection has been made, they inform Mrs, Pandit, who scheduled collection by Linc. Linc had also organised similar campaigns in Victoria Memorial and other places to educate people about the adverse effects of plastic on the environment and how everyone can play their part in reducing the use of plastics. They distributed free refills to the people who came there for a walk.
Earlier we would see our grandparents or elders buying refills for their specific pens but now that we have huge varieties of pens easily and cheaply available in the market, we tend to forget refilling and buy new ones. But the time has come to “think before we throw”.
If you are a school who would like to be part of this campaign, drop us a line at green@earthsmiles.net and we will arrange a Recycle Box for your school to begin its Pen recycling campaign. Linc will collect them when you fill up the box! So, don’t forget to save your old pens and refills for recycling – don’t trash them!
Whenever the collection box in the schools is filled up, the school calls up the company and they replace the old box with a new one. Every year we select and announce a school as a winner on the basis of the maximum weight of the pens and refills collected by a school. Last year La Martiniere for Boys was declared the winner. They were awarded with certificates and some gifts, Varun continued.
The company then sends these collected disposable pens, markers, etc; to their factories (one located in Falta and the other in Serakole,) for recycling, said Harshvardhen Daga, Brand Manager of Linc Pens and Plastic Ltd.
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