Zero-Waste School Supply Kit (4620154142823)

Zero-Waste School Supply Kit

Name: Zero-Waste School Supply Kit
Brand: Wisdom Supply Co.
SKU: ZWSSK1G
Price: 30.00 USD
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The absolute essentials for reusable, repairable, and authentically recyclable school supplies.
(And nothing more).

Zero-Waste Binder Kit:

Pre-Drilled Cover

1" Binder Mechanism

2 Posts + 2 Screws

1 Set of Binder 5-Tab Dividers

How-To Instructions (takes 5 minutes + a screwdriver)

3 Recyclable Folders:

Uncoated, 100% recycled + fully recyclable

1 Pencil Tin Set:
Recyclable Aluminum Tin
1 Unpainted pencil (paint is plastic)
1 Plastic-Free, Wax Peel Highlighter
1 Natural Rubber Eraser,
1 Metal Sharpener with 2 replacement blades

Certified Climate-Beneficial Wool Liner
(from heritage sheep in Northern California)

*that last part sounded like a Portlandia skit, but it's real, and it's pretty amazing.

*The definitions of the words junk, worthless, and garbage are printed on the packaging in order to explain what our versions replace.

We believe it is critical and urgent to openly address the millions of tons of permanent office and school supply waste continually created by the mass production of plastic folders, vinyl binders, and poly pencil pouches and cases.

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"

Pencil Tin Set Includes:

+ Recyclable Aluminum Pencil Tin

+ Climate Beneficial Wool Liner

+ Unpainted, Sustainably Forested Pencil

+ Metal Sharpener, 2 extra blades

+ Wax Highlighter

Tin: 7 5/8" x 1 7/8" x 5/8"

*Kraft box is an optional add on for tin + binder

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

School supplies shouldn't result in permanent pollution.

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.

Landfill-bound Nylon Zipper Pouches, Plastic Pencil Boxes, Vinyl Cases. We've seen stacks of these piled up at the end of the school year - marked with a name or janked up from pen explosions. (It happens). What was used for a season or two, will now exist on the planet for time as we know it.

The difference between our Pencil Tins and a Plastic or Nylon Pencil Case is ours can go right in recycling with your aluminum cans.

Aluminum Recycling:
+ Pencil Tin (can be recycled with cans)

Compost:
+ Climate Beneficial Wool Liner
+ Pencil shavings

Paper Recycling:
+ Replaceable Binder Cover
+ Folders
+ Cardboard Packaging
+ Wax Highlighter paper

Scrap Metal:
+ Metal Sharpener, 2 extra blades
+ Binder Mechanisms (if you don't plan to recover your binder).

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

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THIS ZER0-WASTE KIT CONTAINS:

ADD ON PRODUCTS:

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