Kitchen
Disposable Ballpoint Pen
Single pen
5
g
Total plastic weight
Multiple plastics plus a metal tip fuse together. Effectively never recycled.
0%
Recycle probability
200
Years to decompose
Material breakdown
2 components- PS barrel4g
- PP cap1g
Production footprint
Per unit15L
Water to produce
0.07kWh
Electricity to produce
Estimated upstream manufacturing footprint per unit, based on resin LCA averages.
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