Pens

Use refillable pens. Pens are often tossed into the garbage and not recycled or reused. Their components and packaging are made from nonrenewable resources and can contain environmentally-harmful chemicals. Each year, Americans discard 1.6 billion pens. Placed end to end, they would stretch more than 150,000 miles, equivalent to crossing the Pacific Ocean from Los Angeles to Tokyo more than 25 times.