• The environment friendly biodegradable pen, the DBA 98

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    So there goes your “disposable” pen, all useless and worthless, with its ink drain. As usual, you tip it into your waste bin and buy a new one. Well, you probably haven’t realized the amount of energy put into the manufacturing of that writing device, and the tremendous harm a few thousand of these in the waste could do to the environment. A few people do think about matters like these in our day to day life, and some of them come up with alternatives like this biodegradable pen. A US firm, DBA has designed a environment friendly pen, the DBA 98 Pen, that is 98% biodegradable and uses comparatively lesser energy during manufacturing.


    Unlike the usual steel, nylon, polyester and polypropylene pens we use today, the DBA 98 uses bioplastic, with its ink reservoir made of renewable fibers. This pen takes just 180 days to decompose completely, leaving behind its nib, which is the only that’s not degradable, amounting to 2% of the pens mass. Green concepts pour into writing apparatus too!
    [Energymatters]

    Posted in Topics:Gadgets and Tech, Tags: , on June 29, 2010