This is how pencils are made from newspapers.
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2022
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i love how innovative kenya is. this isn't the first time ive heard of their great upcycling techniques
Innovative? 😂 Girl, Kenya is a developing country. Nothing innovative there. I bet you it was white ppl who came up with this idea aswell, and gave it to these ppl so they would have even some work. And white ppl funded the materials needed for this.
@David King We are the country that came up with mpesa in 2007 which allows for mobile cash transfer, and we did that even without the need for an internet connection to make the transfers, then we did that with internet too. We have literally had conferences over the years where people like Jack Ma and Mark Zuckerberg came to figure out how did it. The first replication of this application took place in China and softwares like Google Pay used mpesa as the blueprint to create their software years after the existence of mpesa. The US did not even have a system like mpesa in 2007 as most people operated with credit/debit cards or going directly to the bank. It is also a Kenyan that developed the software for the UN called the papersmart portal which completely removed the need for printed out papers during Member State negotiations. Just because a country is 3rd world doesn't mean it cannot be innovative. I'd like to know what you've innovated personally, David.
@David King How is that possible? It's hot here, we bathe twice a day and I use a toilet like every other normal human being. We clean meat before eating unlike some people we know. How is this even a burn? In 2022, how would I not know how to bathe and use a toilet? Like how? Which Kenya are you speaking about? I bet you've never even seen the country or it's cities and are just trolling for the sake of it. The fact that I can communicate with you on the internet, how could we not have toilets 🙄 On the other hand, I hear a certain people only bathe twice a week and are even trying to use science/research to justify why they don't like to bathe even with all their amenities.
@David King just because it's a third world country it doesn't mean they can't have innovation and it's kind of pathetic taking shots at people for not being as privileged as you.
@David King tell me where are you from I'm guessing a First world country by your attitude.
I remember as a kid we had scented pencils made from recycled paper just like this
Yeah, smecils! I wonder if the container they came in was recycled though; if not it would’ve been a huge waste of plastic.
They were so good, I literally wouldn’t use anything else as a kid
I'm curious how the tube holds the graphite. How does that work?
When the workers rub the pencil with the sandpaper to make it smooth.
My mind : AYOOO😳
@@AlexNV75 i have some still, and the plastic tube is not recycled. they do advertise that it is recyclable though
wood be like:
first they turn me into paper
and again they are turning me into wood
Then the wood asks itself: Is it witchcraft?
😂😂😂
@@thomask4978 LOL 😂😂😂
@@thomask4978 nope its woodcraft
It is what it is
This reminds me of back in the 90s we had those regular orange pencils. But when we used a pencil sharpener we would notice a design under the orange layer, so my dad would shave off the outer layer of standard orange pencils for the colorful designs and patterns underneath
Yeah Chinese ones in had it
Honestly Kenya, Ghana and lots of places in Africa are doing some crazy things with upcycling, renewable products, etc
I love the African ingenuity.
Meaningless dribble
I love Africa's ability to recycle I wish we would do so too Imagine how much waste we could save
@Billy Bob africa is doing better than you. Remember TV and real life are 2 different planes of reality
I mean.... Kenya blame them? They're Ghana be HUGE with these products. A-frican love their innovative ideas
Yall never had those weird paper pencils at school. It looked like wood and feel like it, but when you'd sharpen it, it would be white and papery
When the workers rub the pencil with the sandpaper to make it smooth.
My mind : AYOOO😳
That's probably plastic stuff
ooOoOOOOHHG YES WTF
@@simonasfaw9450 nah, I would burn it and we all know how burnt plastic smell. I also would write on the shavings. It was definitely some type of newspaper or recycled paper or just some weird wood I never learned about.
@@RonaldoHater777 why u spamming?
These paper pencils actually looks pretty and awesome! ❤
Hell yeah this is something I think a lot of 2000s kids are familiar with - anyone remember smencils? The pencils with different scents? Those were made out of newspaper too!
Never knew that paper would be strong enough to become a pencil. The more you know 🌠
Paper is made from wood!
@@N0Xa880iUL lol that part! It’s still the same.
Fold a paper more then 8 times in half
It's the wood glue
Well I've used these pencils in my school time, about 6,7 years ago. And these pecils were considered "Coool" and fancy.
I used to have the scented newspaper pencils when I was younger. If I remember correctly they were called smencils.
They always broke when sharpening.
Smelled nice though
Yesss smencils were such a flex. "Look, they're made out of paper AND smell nice!"
These memories are older than some kids nowadays. Just like that we are old lmao
i remember buying them from the school store at lunch in elementary. the memories
Smecils!!!! These used to be the biggest thing at the book fair growing up. They had Asian newspapers inside
Kenya is full of amazing innovators, great engineering minds and beautifully thoughtful writers. Truly a country full of marvelous people.
@@Pepper98776 I went there. Jerk.
I remember back in elementary school they gave us pencils recycled out of money
cool
When the workers rub the pencil with the sandpaper to make it smooth.
My mind : AYOOO😳
I remember using scented pencil made from newspaper in elementary.
i had this kind of pencil long time ago, and I'm telling you it's the COOLEST pencil i ever had! especially when you sharpen it!
I remember getting these in middle school back about 19 years ago. I thought they were cooler then because it would show the prints and it was interesting to see what you got and the shavings were nice too lol
I'm so proud to be a Kenyan 🇰🇪🇰🇪❤
I'm from another country but we call our neighborhood Kenya. Heartland Kenya to be specific.👋😁
Living in a country like India, I am so damn educated with a degree and all I do I just do is some theoretical talk! 😞
Nice work you all 👍👍
That is all this country is reduced to. Though I'm skeptical about the recycling part. In villages I see a lot of things being recycled, probably in cities they don't do that.
Wait what? I thought India was one of the most powerful economic county in the whole world
@@docilelikewintercatfish9897 Powerful? Economic?
This is amazing guys. May God bless your hands and may this project propser beyond leaps and bounds 🤲🙏
I only see newspapers in my 80 year old parents house.
I remember these when I was a kid always was so satisfied by looking at all the layers of paper when shapering them
I remember finding one of these as a kid. When I realized it was newspaper I slowly and carefully unraveled one and it was some asian paper from the 80’s. Couldn’t read or understand anything but there was a cool little red dragon on part of it.
Mother Africa :I produce everything world take everything my children get nothing
Wow just wow . greetings from India 👋👌
I am constantly amazed by Kenya's ability to come up with such great ideas.
I remember I had a pencil like this it was so cool seeing the different designs,colors and patterns
I've used a single use pen which was made from paper.
Felt nice, served well.
I would buy a pencil made by this factory
Same hella cool graphics
Well that’s some useful news
I remember in elementary school they sold stencils (smelly pencils) made of this same thing the main office and at book fairs always loved those things.
Yessir smencils
When I was a kid, I used to love these pencils.
Awesome!
Could you imagine actually using history to write history. . Some next level shiit right there!
This is actually really amazing. We need more stuff like this to combat the ever increasing waste that we humans produce.
I WOULD’VE THOUGHT GIVING A LINK TO BUY THEIR PRODUCT WOULD HAVE BEEN A GREAT WAY TO SUPPORT THEM.
OMG! $53,000 in less than a month. Mrs. Carol Ann Mcelroy is someone who changes lives. God bless Mrs. Carol Ann Mcelroy
How can I communicate with Mrs. Carol Ann Mcelroy?
Ms. Carol Ann Mcelroy is a broker with a completely different approach. I can't figure out how she does it, but all I know is that she's very good at what she does.
@@cherrierowland6850 Write her name on your Google search and you will see her website and then you send her an email to assist you
Goggle her name on website and send her an email
the scammers strike back
As an engineer, I can't bear to watch this process not be automated out of existence.
And starving the workers, dude! It seems absurd, but this way they make a basic living by working with their hands. Check out how toothpicks are made.
I understand. We should let machines do the work and not just give people busy work to do. And I'm not saying starve the workers that have no jobs. Ideally in society we could make it where most people didn't have to work to live but only work if they wanted to. Then humans could really be creative, and have leisure, and time to spend with their children and families.
Pencils have been machine made from old newspapers for years in the US and China.
Newspaper pencils are honestly the best feeling pencil you could ever own
We used to have pencils like this back in the early 2000s and they came in tubes and were scented
Great initiative. Businesses like these should get funding
I think that awesome but I like to know how much they getting paid by the hour
The heck you care about, nosy much?
What you gonna do about it Mother Teresa? Thoughts and prayers? yeah that's what I thought.
@@marcogomez9639 silly while corporate government see billions or should I say The British colony received billions while these young workers only get Penny of a dollar you can't compare the mother Teresa
@@latonyasoloman5700 who cares
Don’t act like you care
Tiny hand's sanding pencils
Child labour 🥲
That was actually a woman’s hands not a child. They might be employing children, who knows, but then that creates the debate of whether those kids are better off scouring dumps for things to sell, or being used & abused by criminals & sickos, or starving, compared to being able to get paid to work. IF they’re earning a decent wage.
I enjoyed working when im just a kid
Ohhhh I remember using one of these in school intermediate. I thought it was cool that you could see the writing on the paper when you sharpen it
I remember they gave us a bunch of these in grade school, I had them for years because they were my favorite pencils. they were soft and comfortable to hold onto, they were light, they had cool little print on them from the newspaper.. yeah.
This is, frankly, BRILLIANT!!!
It’s biodegradable, no more wood is needed, and each pencil is different. This is art in the making!!! 😮😍😍😍
Had this one in 2007...not sure if its the same brand... But the logo really looks familiar... Love it... Kinda nostalgic... It was a gift from my mom when I was still studying... I treasure it a lot...
Ingenuity is something that never stops. Congratulations to these people that are taking things that we usually throw away and making a useful for us again, great job.❤
This is a real throwback. This isn't new and I had this in school over 15 years ago
Hasn't this been around for years? It's great they are making a lucrative business from it.
I had pencils similar to this when I was younger, but they were scented. My favorite was gingerbread.
I always buy my children recycled newspaper colored pencils for our homeschool each year! They work great.
Your work is spectacular! What beautiful pencils! I hope anyone who uses them knows what love went into making each piece by hand. I’m so impressed! Wonderfully innovative people ✨🕊💕 stay blessed and prosperous ✨
I wonder if they can imitate this process with other recycled paper materials. Such a cool creative way to sustain used materials
This is true innovation. Congratulations to the people who thought this idea and put it into production.
This was my mandatory art project in my elementary school. We roll them up like that and made a tissue box out of it. The amount of work just to roll a single paper to make it hard was ridiculous. My teacher checked if our roll papers is hard enough. If it was soft, we need to try again. It was a nightmare 💀.
This has been around for a long time however they were fazed out around 10 years ago. The newspaper pencil we had were naked and you can actually see the layers of newspaper when you sharpened into it.
Very innovative, recycling old newsprint into pencils,saves trees and provides inexpensive writing material for school children! Sustainable development!
I remember using a newspaper pencil before and it was really cool to see all of the layers of different newspapers when I sharpened it. Of course I couldn’t see the layers exactly but what I mean is the colors of what each layer had
That’s actually really cool! What is waste gets reused again!
That is too cool I hope you're paying the workers enough money For all the hard work they do
This is hard paper, you could accomplish many things with this technique. I once made a 1:1 scale model with functioning parts of a SW mode 10
I remembered buying those pencils about a decade ago, didn't know why it had different layers. I'm surprised they're actually made of newspapers!! That's an amazing way to recycle and reuse them!
Love this! I also love the Sprout Pencils! Instead of tossing the pencil when it's down to where the eraser would be, you plant them and grow herbs and flowers!
I've used one of these. I love how it have multiple layers when I sharpen it. Not the best looking pencil but one of the most environmental friendly I guess.
They have done this before, smencils in the 90s or 00s. However these ones seem crazy durable and could potentially be used for build with enough recycling.
Isn't Kenya where they upcycle flip flops into incredible art pieces??
This is awesome.
My school back in the day used to invite this kind of company to sell pencils and stationaries. Its super popular but they stopped doing it.
We need more people like this not causing wars or problems.
I used to peel the newspaper pencil when I was in high school. It was bliss
It's not new I grow up with thise kind of pencils it's really great it feel soft to write with
Yall remember the "smencils" they had at the scholastic book fair (the newspaper pencils that had a smell to them)
This company turning wood into wood. It’s absolutely genius!
Sarcasm?😂
I remember these being a thing from China in primary school, they were called smencils and you could see characters underneath the outer layer when you sharpened them
I’ve seen this on Etsy, really nice. Great to see creative people working there magic 😂😊
Wait, I have these pencils since... 20 years ago!
I love this; people using theyre heads to come up with honest ingenuity!
That is amazing! Great work
I actually prefer these to the wood pencils. The exposed wood from sharpening is usually rough, but with the paper ones it is always smooth. They also glide through the sharpener and produce less dust.
Back to those days of smencils
I never knew just how hard people worked for the most simplest things we have in the US. 🙏🙏🙏
Surprised at how many people haven’t seen a recycled paper pencil. I mean they aren’t common but usually you would find them at random around school.
Ethiopian here... we used to have these when I was a kid. Loved the pencils
This innovation has been out for more than 17 years
What a great business, and how great that it doesn't take much equipment to start up. We could learn a lot from the people in Kenya. 👏
So that's how they make my pencils, when I used to draw a lot. Those were the pencils that my parents always bought. I actually still have a lot of them around the house today the blue and black ones.
I used to use these a lot when I was a kid
Concept is great but far from new had "smencils" growing up that were mad from newspapers
These have been around a long time, Japan had them when I was in primary
I remember buying these from my school's supply shop for a whole dollar (normal pencil was a dime)
Am I the only one who immediately thought of scentcils? That fundraiser every American suburban kid did in elementary school with the scented pencils made out of newspaper
Thats the best example of recycling. Nice.
Kenya is growing, keep moving brothers!
Meaningless
@@mikecummings6593 just like the development of your brain! right?
That's the most labor intensive and expensive way of making large numbers of pencils I ever heard of
thats genius! i need a set for sure
This has been done for decades now. They used to put scents in the pencils too.
This is really cool. I dig it. Especially because I can't think of any newsprint that isn't immediately trash during the age of The Internet.
This is fantastic .. I hope they give the workers some basic PPE.
i’ve had a paper pencil before they were scented and very cool
I used to have one of these that I got from one of those terrible art kit things 😅 yk the cheap ones that come with the crayons and markers
They cornered that ever growing pencil market 100 years too late