Extraction, Production, Distribution, Consumption, and Disposal of the Tingonderoga Numeber 2 Pencil

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It was my first year in middle school. It wasn’t the greatest thing in the world, but I had finally started to develop a sense of connection to the people and things around me. I was learning about my interests (pizza and dodge ball) and my disinterests (video games and spinach soup). During these years, I experimented with scrap making it my purpose to create something out of nothing. I would bend, cut, screw, weld, and much of the time end up hurting myself trying to make a vision into a reality. Surprisingly, back in 10,000 BC cavemen were doing very similar things. The cave man's first inventions included the hunting club and the sharpened-stone. These tools became the all-purpose skinning and killing survival tools of their time. The sharpened stone later became the first writing instrument. Cavemen scratched drawings representing events in daily life such as the planting of crops or hunting victories they experienced. The history of writing instruments by which humans have recorded and conveyed thoughts, feelings and grocery lists, is the history of civilization itself. This is how we know the story of us, by the drawings, signs and words we have recorded. It is without doubt that these utensils have evolved into being integral parts of our lives, and furthermore, have allowed us to grow smarter and more productive as people. In this paper, I will discuss the extraction, production, distribution, consumption, and disposal of a common consumer item; the Ticonderoga number two pencil.

Although the number two pencil looks like a simplistic utensil, its production involves a meticulous machining process. Making a pencil begins with a mixture of graphite, and a smaller amount of clay and water. Graphite is produced using carbo...

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...ion. But in the end the disposal of the number two pencil is much easily taken care of then the extraction and production of the materials necessary to produce it are.

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