The simplest, littlest of things can sometimes make all the difference in the world. What if… one day we stopped cutting down trees and destroying forests for our consumption. And instead, we REUSE what we already have.


It starts with something we use often in our daily lives – a pencil. How many trees have been cut down to manufacture wooden pencils? The answer – A LOT. How many trees have been cut down to make newspapers? The answer – once again, A LOT. Now wouldn’t it be a good idea to cut some corners here, if it were to save Mother Nature an entire pine forest? The answer – YES!

O’BON does what many other pencil companies fail to take into consideration first – take something old and used, like newspapers, and turn it into something that serves another purpose. At O’BON, they take used newspapers and, instead of throwing them into landfills, make pencils out of that newspaper.


Being environmentally responsible means that you are conscious and aware of your carbon footprint, where you are doing everything in your power as an individual to make sure that there is less of a footprint. Recycling is where it all starts, which also happens to be one of the simplest ways to reduce your footprint.
O’BON takes the idea of environmental responsibility by recycling old newspaper, yet instead of stopping there, they take it one step further and produce something that we can use in pencils and stationery products. O’BON is essentially saving our world from environmental destruction by not cutting down any more trees for pencil production, when all the resources needed to make pencils are already available.
Congrats to O’BON… Saving the world, one pencil at a time.

-Blimey Bjorn