Here in Aussieland they would be banned... the WOKE brigade would put up wanted posters, for any plastic user.
Like Barb's idea for the pen & pencil set... if they were both out of the same blank, one could be on the 4yh page of a h5 page handwritten letter, to find they have been writing in pencil and some bum could erase the pencil and re-write it to your detriment.
If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD