Sprout ... a living plant from a dying pencil
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Sprout being used as a pencil, with the seed sitting in the tip waiting for its big moment
Sprout is designed to include a marker at which length the pencil should be planted in soil
Planting Sprout is as simple as jamming it into a pot filled with soil
Like all seeds, moisture is essential to begin the germination process
Sprout is the name of a new brand of pencil which comes with a seed in the end – when the pencil has reached the end of its usefulness, the stub can be planted in soil
An illustration showing the whole process from pencil to plant
Article Summary
We live in a throwaway society, where even large and expensive products are merely trashed when they reach the end of their life and/or usefulness. It's a rather sad state of affairs, with waste that could be recycled or reused extensively placed in the ground to rot ... or, in the case of non-biodegradable materials, not rot. It's against this rather depressing backdrop that one group of product designers have created Sprout, an ordinary, everyday pencil which hides a rather special trick up its sleeve.
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