Sprout ... a living plant from a dying pencil

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We live in a throwaway society, where even large and expensive products are merely trashed when they reach the end of their life and/or usefulness. It's a rather sad state of affairs, with waste that could be recycled or reused extensively placed in the ground to rot ... or, in the case of non-biodegradable materials, not rot. It's against this rather depressing backdrop that one group of product designers have created Sprout, an ordinary, everyday pencil which hides a rather special trick up its sleeve... Continue Reading Sprout ... a living plant from a dying pencil

Section: Good Thinking

Tags: Biodegradable, Kickstarter, Plants, Recycling, Writing

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