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Zero-Waste Binder Kit

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Why ours is a ten dollar binder:

Increased costs: Recycled Pulp / Raw Materials, Manufacturing, Transportation, Packaging, Labor

The Wisdom Supply Co. Binder is the only true Zero-Waste Binder on the market, and it’s produced by a bootstrapped, purpose-driven start-up operating out of a one room warehouse/office space staffed by the founders and local students all on a shared mission to prevent waste.

The act of assembling our binder is intended to imprint the repairability of the product, as well as to spur thought and conversation around waste and product design.

Zero-Waste Binder Kit Includes:

Pre-Drilled Cover

1" Binder Mechanism

2 Posts + 2 Screws

1 Set of Binder 5-Tab Dividers

How-To Instructions

If Wisdom Binders were pre-assembled, the replaceable, recyclable cover feature would be overlooked, and the binders would continue to be landfilled once they were worn out.

*Every vinyl binder ever made still exists in some form. Vinyl binder take-back and recycling programs do little more than encourage continued purchasing of more plastic and vinyl waste.

**Cardboard binders without removable / replaceable covers (they exist) are considered “mixed materials waste” and will become landfill.

***Nothing “composts” in a landfill - whatever goes in permanently increases to the larger toxic mass.

Waste is a design flaw.

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Binder covers are:

100% Recycled Cover

100% Recyclable Cover

Made in the U.S. in a wind-powered factory.

Binder Spine: 1 3/4"

Metal D-Ring: 1"

Length x Width: 11 1/2" x 10 1/2"

Cardboard Thickness: 1/8"

*Kraft box is an optional add on

The box explains the kit, and why our company is named after an albatross.

Vinyl binders are made of permanently affixed mixed-materials and therefore are not recycled in any meaningful capacity and never will be. Binder recycling schemes exist to encourage the continued guilt-free purchase of more vinyl binders, meanwhile, tens of thousands of tons of these binders end up as landfill every year.

How-to-Binder in reverse:
+ Lay binder open/flat
+ Un-screw 3-ring mechanisms
+ Flip cover over (logo facing up)
+ Push down to pop posts out from binder cover
+ Place binder cover in paper/cardboard recycling
+ Keep all binder hardware for new replacement cover

Wisdom Featured Collection

Zero-Waste Teacher Planner 2021-22
32.00

2022 Zero-Waste Weekly Planner
25.60 32.00

Zero-Waste Student Weekly Planner
9.60 12.00

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Binder Assembly How-To Video:

We knew if our binders were delivered pre-assembled, the majority would be thrown “away” when they were worn out.

It’s habit.
Use it up, toss it out, get a new one.
It’s the plastic-world way.

You know the expression:
Give a person a binder, organize them for a day. Teach a person to binder, shift their thinking about our throwaway society.

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Finding "Missing" Screws How-To Video:

We’ve had 3 Binder Kit recipients report that the screws + posts were missing.

We figured out that they weren’t actually missing, just really well hidden.

For future orders we’re writing a note on the bags, but here’s a semi-unboxing “find the screws” tutorial:

Wisdom Supply Co. was founded by two plastic pollution activists stunned into action by the staggering waste created every year from the plastic, vinyl, and spiral-bound school supplies the students were instructed to purchase.

The best time to help future adults unlearn wasteful habits was decades and billions of tons ago. The next best time is now.

If you know a teacher into pro-earth things like oceans, soil, air, or things that live: TEACHER REWARDS PROGRAM