May 20 2008

Staple free stapler

Categories: Office Supplies —

Staple free staplerThis small invention is one of my favorite office supplies and I just have to show you all. It looks good and performs the same function we need without damaging the environment by using hundreds of staples. It also means you never run out of, or have to by staples ever again, not that it’s a budget issue, but I always used to run out at the stupidest times.

The staple free stapler gets the job of stapling done without staples! It manages this by cutting a slot out of the paper and folding it into itself, pretty ingenious if you ask me. It’s also quite cheap at 9 bucks, and saves you a load of money on top of that on staples too.

I know one staple might not sound as anything much, but companies use boatloads of it. A few years back I worked at Shell as a student for a year and I used about one box of staples every week. That’s about 1,000 staples a week. That means that just I would use about 50,000 staples a year, company-wide I am guessing that it’s in the millions. Multiply that by tens of thousands of companies and the number inflates to quite an amount. Although staples are made from stainless steel, which is 100% recyclable I doubt that people recycle staples. In the end, I’m not a huge Greenpeace activist, but if I can do something as simple as this, why not?

Take a look at this video to see exactly how it works and if this doesn’t get you excited, I don’t know what will.