The Pilot Pen Company (UK) Ltd x Marine Conservation Society UK

The Pilot Pen Company (UK) Ltd is delighted to announce its continued environmental commitment by partnering up with the Marine Conservation Society. The UK’s leading ocean charity fights for cleaner, better-protected seas through working with government, industry, and education.

For Pilot, this partnership is part of a real ongoing environmental policy. In 2006, the brand launched their Begreen range of pens which are all made from a minimum of 70% from recycled plastic*. In 2009, it was the turn of B2P (Bottle to Pen) to enter the market, a pen made of recycled bottles. And, in 2021, for the first time in the world, the B2P range went one step further in the “From bottle to pen” logic, as part of its composition, the pens would now include plastic waste recovered from oceans and beaches**.

85% of the Pilot Begreen writing instruments are refillable and using a refill when the ink runs out, rather than an entire new pen reduces the amount of single-use plastics in daily life. Refilling a pen also brings a reduction in greenhouse gases as manufacturing an entire pen produces more CO2 than just a refill. 

Starting in January 2023, Pilot Pen will make a donation of 5p from the sale of every Pilot B2P Gel rollerball and B2P Ecoball across all business channels to the Marine Conservation Society. Both pens are refillable, and made of at least 86% recycled plastic bottles, of which 2.5% are recycled ocean plastic.

*Recycled material mainly from plastic bottles (excluding replaceable parts)

** Rigid plastic material recovered from the ocean, beaches, rivers, lakes, riverbanks, and waterways

“Pilot Pen UK will make a donation of 5p + VAT from the sale of every Pilot B2P Gel Ink Rollerball and B2P Ecoball to Marine Conservation Society, a registered UK charity working for seas full of life. Registered charity no. 1004005 (England & Wales); SC037480 (Scotland). www.mcsuk.org.”