The Sprout Color Pencil is the first sustainable crayon in the world that is plantable. The Sprout Color Pencil combines practicality, usefulness and sustainability in school and office: Draw, Write, Plant, Love, Sprout!
Plant Variety and Colours
The Sprout pencil is not only a practical crayon for office and school. The useful character lies hidden at the pencil’s end. Here at least four organic seeds are integrated into a boll. If the pencil is too short for writing, simply plant it in a flower pot with soil or in the garden in a sunny place, water regularly and enjoy how it begins to germinate of pencil stub after a few days. In this way you grow fresh herbs in organic quality for preparing food.
The pen contains no lead, but cedar, graphite and clay, so that you can harvest various herbs, vegetables and flowers. Calendula, Carnation, Forget me not, and Marigold will embellish your bee-friendly organic garden.
Even after using and planting your crayon, there will be a little stub left of the pencil. This stub is 100% non-toxic, but the inventors want to go further and find ideas on how it can be useful. Against this background, the pencil that grows is an ecological alternative to conventional pencils made of lead. Because Sprout is
The perfect personal touch for gardeners and for people live in close touch with nature. And if you are looking for a green advertising idea, Sprout Color, the plantable crayon is an unbeatable sustainable promotional gift for your customers and business partners. Sprout Color is a great way to emphasise your eco-friendly brand!
We stand for sustainable and fair trade products in ECO design, ECO fashion and Green Lifestyle. We are a small, family-run business and will remain 100% that way. Eco-friendly products for house and farm as well as slow fashion and fair trade gifts are our passion.
Payment Methods: Prepayment, PayPal
Shipping Costs
Shipping to Germany: 5,90 Euro, free shipping to Germany from 100,00 Euro
Shipping to Austria: 17.99 euros, free shipping to Austria from 200.00 Euro
Shipping to all other EU countries: 18.99 Euro, free shipping from 200.00 Euro
Shipping to Norway, Switzerland, Great Britain, the USA and Canada: 19.99 Euro, free shipping from 200.00 Euro
Shipping Method
DHL GoGreen
Costs of returning: The customer will bear the direct cost of returning the goods.
Delivery time: The delivery time refers to a receipt of payment (eg via PayPal) on the day of purchase and is based on the processing time indicated by the seller and the delivery time as instructed by the shipping service. In a later receipt of payment the delivery date is postponed accordingly. The actual delivery time may in individual cases, especially at peak times such as Christmas and on public holidays, differ.
For deliveries abroad, the actual delivery time may differ from the stated delivery time, and be between 3 and 7 working days more than specified for each product.
Notification about possible additional taxes and costs: For deliveries to Switzerland or NON-EU-countries customs and import sales tax may apply and are payable to the customs authority by the customer upon receipt of the shipment. These charges are in addition to the purchase price and the shipping and can not be influenced by the provider.
Sustainability
This product meets the following sustainability criteria
The Sprout crayon contains organic seeds to germinate. When the seed capsule is exposed to moisture it begins to degrade, releasing the seed within Sprout and starting its germination. Water your Sprout regularly and make sure it gets plenty of sunlight. Sunlight must be directly on your pencil for it to grow.
As a Sedex member, Sprout is committed to being a responsible business, sourcing responsibly, and improving ethical standards and working conditions within the supply chain. SMETA 4 PILLARS – Audit (EU & USA) Assessment of work sites to check they operate ethically and meet specific processes. CODE OF CONDUCT: We are committed to running our business ethically on sound environmental principles and in accordance with legislation on human rights and anti-corruption practices.
We are committed to protect, restore, and promote the sustainable use of natural habitats. All the wood for our pencils is FSC or PEFC certified, and all our pencils and pencil liners have a second life as a plant or tree. In Europe, all our wood is harvested from the Polish state forest. We don’t just give back – we give more than we have taken. We buy afforested land and plant trees to give back to the Polish forest, replacing what we’ve used and more. We also support habitats and ecosystems by planting additional shrubs and bushes in the forest.
B Corp certified business. When you do business with us as a B Corp it’s your guarantee that you can purchase from us with a total peace of mind. In short, B Corp is about being a business that (apart from making money) also does the best for the planet. It’s a third-party certification which means that our assessment has been verified by 3. Party, B Lab, the American non-profit behind the B Corp Certification. Through our LCA (Life Cycle Assessment), a standardized method to quantitatively assess the environmental performance of a product, we measure our climate footprint all the way through the value chain, reviewing and assessing it through production to use and end of life to continually improve it. All Sprout packaging is FSC®-certified and CO2 neutral.
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