You can dump them in a compost pile. First, you have to remove the metal piece that holds the eraser, and the eraser itself, as these things don’t decompose. Just throw those away in the recycle bin. The wood can decompose, but the graphite, I’m not sure about. It is carbon, but not only carbon.

Kindling for a winter fire if you have enough. Should burn nicely.

hi,
you will not have that problem if you use a recycle pencil !( i mean pencil that made with newspaper!).
we had introduced this obon pencil in several countries and they are well accepted from school childrens and working adults. for more informations, check it out at www.obon.us or www.bigscream.blogspot.com

I had the same problem with the lead snapping, until I got a new pencil sharpener. The old one had blunted and that was causing the lead to snap.
But, this still doesn’t solve the problem of all he surplus pencils.

They used to have pencil holders which you could put on pencil stubs to use up the last pencil bit - maybe you could concoct one.

I wonder if rodent-like pets (rats? hamsters?) would like to gnaw on a stump of pencil (minus the lead and eraser, obviously). Perhaps a pet-loving person could tell us if this might be a good use for old pencils.

i scrape the graphite on keys and use it to lubricate locks that are sticking. If you have pencils that have used-up erasers, you can wind a rubber band around the end and it works as an eraser.

Wow! That is a great solution for my students. They tend to erase a lot and the pop on erasers seem to disappear out of my classroom. I have a surplus of rubber bands though.

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