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Naked Binder was formed to offer a sustainable, well designed and better alternative to vinyl binders. 

Our pledge is to work to eliminate PVCs coming into our buildings through other products, other sources. We have no PCV in our binders or our packaging.

If you are not convinced that it is a good idea to eliminate PVCs from your company, school and home, here is some information and links to more information.

PVA v. PVC v. EVA - Vinyls and Types of Vinyl

So what are Dioxins?
Companies who have pledged to eliminate PVCs

The hidden costs of vinyl binders

So why limit your exposure to PVC?

Health

No other plastic contains or releases as many dangerous chemicals. These include dioxins,
phthalates, vinyl chloride, ethylene dichloride, lead, cadmium, and organotins. There’s no safe way to
manufacture, use or dispose of PVC products

In You and your food. As a persistent bioaccumulative toxin (PBT), it does not breakdown rapidly and travels around the globe, accumulating in fatty tissue and concentrating as it goes up the food chain. Dioxins from Louisiana manufacturing plants migrate on the winds and concentrate in Great Lakes fish. Dioxins are even found in hazardous concentrations in the tissues of whales and polar bears and in Inuit mother's breast milk. The dioxin exposure of the average American already poses a calculated risk of cancer of greater than 1 in 1,000 - thousands of times greater than the usual standard for acceptable risk. Really scary is that dioxins concentrate in breast milk to the point that human infants now receive high doses, orders of magnitude greater than those of the average adult.

air pollution near plants: In Mossville, Louisiana, air monitoring conducted by the US Environmental Protection Agency in 1999 showed concentrations of vinyl chloride more than 120 times higher than the ambient air standard.

working in plant: Studies have documented links between working in vinyl chloride production facilities and the increased likelihood of developing diseases including angiosarcoma of the liver, a rare form of liver cancer, brain cancer, lung cancer, lymphomas, leukemia, and liver cirrhosis.

(non) Recycling

The multitudes of additives required to make PVC useful make large scale post consumer recycling nearly impossible for most products and interfere with the recycling of other plastics. Of an estimated 7 billion pounds of PVC thrown away in the US, only 14 million - less than 1/2 of 1 percent - is recycled. The Association of Post Consumer Plastics Recyclers declared efforts to recycle PVC a failure and labeled it a contaminant in 1998.

Although vinyl is in theory recyclable, there are currently no vinyl recycling programs available.  The vast majority of PVCs end up in landfill or incinerated - and both are environmentally hazardous. Currently 0.1% to 3% of vinyl is recycled (mostly industrial waste) of the 2 billion and 4 billion pounds of PVC that is discarded in the US every year.

Fire dangers

PVC poses a great risk in building fires, as it releases deadly gases long before it ignites, such as hydrogen chloride which turns to hydrochloric acid when inhaled. As it burns, whether accidentally or in waste incineration, it releases yet more toxic dioxins. PVC burning in landfill fires may now be the single largest source of dioxin releases to the environment. If you see the former entry about recycling, with the approximately 8400 landfill fires every year in the US, this is an issue.

 Downloadable Information Sheets

What are Dioxins?

Types of Vinyl

 Links to more information

Healthy Building Network

EPA Enforcement    EPA regulates

Ecocycle on recycling

PVC Information dangers in making   dangers in fire      disposing of PVC

Campaign for Safe Healthy Consumer Products

Wikipedia's entry

Ted Talks: Diana Cohen: Tough Truths About Plastic Pollution

Ted Talks: Capt. Charles Moore on Seas of Plastic

 Healthy Building Network

 

Vinyl Industry Sites

Vinyl Institute

PVC.org

IMPORTANT INFO ON THE FLY

Why naked binder?

We believe the products you use should be better designed to last, inspire and do better in the world and the workplace. We designed our products to be safer and healthier to make, use and dispose of.

 

useful information

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Recycled binders save you money

Labeling: customize a binder

Make the switch: PVC and vinyl binders

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RECYCLED & ECO-FRIENDLY BINDERS, FOLDERS & TABS 

3-RING BINDERS

Naked Binder
Project Binder
Classic Binder
Eames Binder
11 x 17 Architect Binder

 

Naked Binder makes the highest quality recycled and recyclable eco-friendly office and school supplies on the planet. Office supplies have never looked better, performed better or been as easy on the planet.

  

Pocket Folders

1 Pocket  Folder
2 Pocket  Folder
Tri-Folder
Binder Pocket Pouch
CD/DVD Holder

 

Our recycled eco-friendly pocket folders, cd holders, and binder pocket pouches are 100% recycled, FSC certified and 97% post-consumer waste.

  

Tab Dividers

Eames Tab Dividers
Conservation Printable Tab Dividers
Naked Tab Dividers

 

All of the tabs can be easily customized by labeling or screen printing them. Our binder tabs are all made from post-consumer waste and are 100% recyclable.

 

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Contact Naked Binder 

Naked Binder is located in Des Moines, IA.  We manufacture everything here, work here and answer phones here.

PHONE: 877-446-2533

EMAIL: info@nakedbinder.com

 

About Naked Binder

Started in 2008, Naked Binder emerged having multiple goals: sustainability, great design, preserving wilderness we love and giving back to education that helped us get here.

We designed the strongest, most sustainable 3-ring binders available - cutting waste in manufacturing, processing and travel.  We make our binders, folders and tabs in Des Moines, IA in the US of A out of FSC certified, 100% post-consumer waste binders board, 100% cotton cloth, a few FSC certified papers and metal rings.  No plastics, vinyls or toxins. 

We designed our 3-ring binders to look so good you won't want to get rid of them.  We have everything you might need to impress a client, store your taxes or decorate your office. 

Naked Binder donates to support wilderness areas and schools around the US. Learning to think and space to think in are important for a better world.

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