Pencil/Cap Erasers

Social Component

Labor process

Monoculture Growing Techniques

Technologies/Chemical Process used

Oil Refinary

Vulcanization

Fluid Catalytic Cracking

Environmental Hazards

''the third largest greenhouse gas (GHG) emitting industrial sector''

Deforestation

Loss of Biodiversity

Soil Erosion

Hazardous Waste

Chemical Smell Polution

Polluted Water Pools

Distillation

Social Hazards

Land Grabing

Impoverishment

Violence

Food and water shortages

3 Types of Producers cultivating Rubber

State-owned companies and farms

Private Enterpreneurs

Smallholder Farms

Manufacturing places (e.g. for Faber Castell)

Brazil

India

Malaysia

China

Power Component

Luke's 3 Dimensions of Power

Non-decision making power: Set discourse in the agenda and debates

Ideological Power: Influences one's wishes and thoughts-> makes them think differently from what they are used to

Biggest Problem

No specific targeted Recycling Company for Erasers

Erasers are not politicized

Those in power don't have to set the discourse anymore

Natural Component

Materials

Natural Rubber(isoprene)

Cheaper SBR (=Styrene-butadiene)

Meaning families of synthetic rubber

good resistance

good stability to aging

Additives

Fillers

Made up of 2 Types of Plastic

Elastomers (Plastic treated with Chemicals)

Plastic

Abrasive

Pumice

Plasticizer

Vegetable Oil

Petroleum

Benzene

Synthetic Rubber

Sustainable?

Recycling not feasable

Shavings filled with graphite soot

No specifically targeted recycling company

Disposal/Environmental Hazards

(straight to)Landfills

Sucked in by the vacuum cleaner

ends up leachate

treated as wastewater

released into nearby water pool

end in waterways below the soil

covered up with rest of municipal waste

can end up in the soil if it is rained on

Hard to track

Waste=Shavings too small

The Future?

Rubberized asphalt roads