{"id":4903,"date":"2018-11-20T09:29:42","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T14:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=4903"},"modified":"2018-11-20T16:35:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T21:35:07","slug":"what-is-better-for-the-environment-wooden-pencils-or-plastic-mechanical-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/11\/20\/what-is-better-for-the-environment-wooden-pencils-or-plastic-mechanical-ones\/","title":{"rendered":"What is better for the environment&#8230; wooden pencils or Plastic mechanical ones?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4890\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4890\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/aw112019-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4890\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/aw112019-1-300x296.jpg\" alt=\"What is better for the environment... wooden pencils or Plastic mechanical ones?\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/aw112019-1-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/aw112019-1-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/aw112019-1.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">What is better for the environment&#8230; wooden pencils or Plastic mechanical ones?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Environmentally, the mechanical pencil is the better option as it has the potential to last for a very long time: you use up the lead in a wooden pencil and you need to get another pencil; you use up the lead in a mechanical pencil and you simply refill it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmentally, the mechanical pencil is the better option as it has the potential to last for a very long time: you use up the lead in a wooden pencil and you need to get another pencil; you use up the lead in a mechanical pencil and you simply refill it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[276],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4923,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4903\/revisions\/4923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}