Quote Originally Posted by Grey_Wolf_c View Post
Depends on what you do to process it or dispose of it. Burning it releases pretty much all of the CO2 it absorbed in life. Turning it into pencils or solid wood furniture, less so, since they're still mostly long strains or carbon.
In the case of furniture then you can probably assume the carbon is going to remain sequestered for a good long while, since people don't usually burn furniture unless it's broken beyond repair, but I wonder what the life cycle of a pencil is? All those pencil shavings going into the bin are presumably bound for landfill, where they'll rot down and get turned back into CO2 quite quickly.