不可思议,这支铅笔变成西红柿-CNN 不可思议,这支铅笔变成西红柿


"There are 15 billion pencils made annually, and three million of those just in the United States. That’s a lot of pencil stubs thrown away," said Michael Stausholm, CEO of Sprout World.

“每年有150亿铅笔出产,他们中的三百万在美国.很多断笔都被扔了,” Sprout World.首席运营官Michael Stausholm,说。

Denmark-based Sprout World wants to shrink this waste. The startup makes plantable pencils that grow into vegetables, herbs or flowering plants once you’re done using them.

丹麦Sprout World想要减少这些废品。最开始让可耕种的铅笔在被你用完后变为蔬菜，甘草或者开花植物。

Stausholm said the pencils, made from cedar in Pine City, Minnesota, are the perfect sustainable product because one "dying product is literally giving life to a new product."


Where a typical eraser would be, these wooden pencils have a capsule made from biodegradable material that contains a small mixture of seeds and peat.


You plant the capsule in a pot of soil and use the stub end of the pencil as a marker. The capsule dissolves and the seeds grow into a plant.


The pencils come in 14 varieties ($19.95 for a pack of eight), including tomato, lavender, basil, sunflower and green pepper.


The pencils were developed by three MIT students in 2012.


"At the time, I was living in Denmark and working a lot with sustainable companies," he said. "But sustainability is hard to illustrate to consumers. I was searching for a product that could easily do that."


A year later, he came across Sprout Pencils when it was a Kickstarter campaign."I loved the idea. It was a perfect way to explain what sustainability is all about," said Stausholm.


Stausholm partnered with the students and convinced them to let him sell the pencils in Denmark. "We sold 70,000 pencils in the spring of 2013. We realized there was definitely demand for them," he said.


By 2014, the startup had sold a million pencils across Europe.


Later that year, Stausholm acquired the patents and rights to the brand and became Sprout World’s CEO.

那年末，Stausholm获得了专利和产权，成为了Sprout World的首席运营官。

He said Sprout World now sells an average of 450,000 pencils a month and has logged more than $3 million in revenue.

他说Sprout World现在平均每月出售450000支铅笔，收入超过300万美金。

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