a photograph of a Sarasa Mark On ball-point pen next to a refill, and the refill's tiny amount of plastic packaging. above them is a box of lamy safari refill cartridges. the lamy safari fountain pen is conspicously missing because it's missing.

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   masukomi (masukomi@connectified.com)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 00:16:16 JST masukomi

   Why is it that when the typical ball point pen sold in USA runs out of ink I have to replace the entire thing: the body, the ink tube, the tip, the clicker, and the 2 springs?

   Yet, when my pretty unremarkable Japanese ball-point pen runs out I just grab a replacement ink tube & tip?

   When my lowbrow Lamy Safari fountain pen runs out I just replace the ink cartridge?

   Why is pen stuff so needlessly wasteful?

   #environment