Plastic Free Notebooks Pens for School: What Actually Counts in 2026 By Chester Takau · October 2026 Almost no "eco" pen is plastic-free. Ethical.net's October 2026 update found that the Pilot BeGreen B2P barrel is about 89.8% recycled plastic, the Schneider Reco body 92% and the STABILO GREEN BOSS 83%. Those are recycled-plastic pens, not plastic-free ones. The only truly plastic-free bodies are metal, such as the aluminium Caran d'Ache 849 and the stainless-steel Parker Jotter. For notebooks, plastic-free means paper covers, FSC-certified paper and stitched or glued binding instead of plastic coils. Chester Takau, TokMind Chester Takau writes about sustainable school gear from a Pacific-Island perspective, decoding eco-certifications so buyers can tell real claims from greenwashing. This is a research piece, not a product test. I haven't tested these pens myself, so every figure below comes from the cited sources, and company-report...