Have you ever thought about just how much goes into producing a tiny staple? It’s one of the many surprisingly small items that when you look at the big picture, have a fairly large impact on our environment. Friends of the Earth, an environmental advocacy group, says if 10 Million office workers each used one less staple a day it would save 120 tons of steel a year. 120 tons!
So, how do I use one less staple you might ask? Well, you could use a product you use over and over like a paper clip or you could simply dog-ear the pages you want to stick together. Or, you could use a handy staple free stapler created by a company called Made by Humans. The small gadget cuts a hole in the stack of papers you want to attach together and then stitches the flaps down on the back of the last page as you pull the stack out. You get five color choices and it will attach up to 5 sheets of paper together.
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I have purchased this item before. I really like the idea of staple free stapler. The bad part is it’s not durable. The unit breaks down on me many times. The metal inside keep coming loose after I staple just 3 pages of regular letter size copy paper. I end up spending on the unit more than I paid for the real stapler and the refill.