http://ask.metafilter.com/tags/green-fight Questions tagged with 'green-fight' at Ask MetaFilter. Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:15:19 -0800 Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:15:19 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://ask.metafilter.com/70535/Paper%2Dor%2DPlastic Which is "greener"? Her metal &amp; plastic mechanical pencils manufactured in Japan, or my Dixon Ticonderoga #2 pencils made in North America? She says my wood pencils kill trees. I say we can plant more, and the industrial byproducts of pencil maufacture are wood shavings and whatever toxins are in the yellow paint, which I can take or leave (I think...I do like the yellow).<br> <br> I say she's adding to the world's supply of cheap plastic toxic junk. She counters that I chew/lose/use up lots of pencils, while mechanical pencils can last for years. (I call shenanigans on that, noting that she loses hers all the time). She compares my cutting down rare and precious trees instead of using nonrenewable materials to make pencils is like running a car on whale oil and saying I can always make more whales.<br> <br> Okay, MeFites.<br> That should get y'all started. Please chip in on our fight. tag:ask.metafilter.com,2007:site.70535 Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:15:19 -0800 #2 environmental green-fight mechanical Pencil penciltopper