The Kenyan company recycling paper into pencils
14 August 2015 Last updated at 16:32 BST
If paper is made out of wood, what happens when you try to reverse the process?
In Kenya, a company has found an innovative way to create environmentally-friendly branded pencils from old newspapers.
For Africa Business Report, the BBC visited the Green Pencils factory in the Kenyan capital Nairobi to find out how it all works.
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