Your company meets and exceeds expectations and goals in sustainability and quality.  Why shouldn't your office supplies?  Many 3-ring binders are toxic vinyl and nearly impossible to recycle, many of your folders are printed,  laminated (also non-recyclable) and made in China garnering a huge carbon footprint.

Naked Pocket folders offer you a choice.

Simple, elemental and 97% post consumer waste, Naked Pocket Folders will show your sense of design, economy and environment.

Easily customized for proposals, around the office or at design school, these pocket folders are strong, beautiful and eco friendly.  The 100% recycled 97% post consumer waste paper board folders and cd packages have a smooth clean look with a paper not available anywhere else. With business card cuts in the pocket folders and both business card cuts and a cd cut on the Binder Pocket, These pocket folders will help you both look and be sustainable and ahead of the curve.

Whether you are a LEED certified company working to maintain your points, a company fulfiling your CSR, or a person who just cares about design and the environment, Naked pocket folders will not disapoint.

The North East Joint Fire District in New York State is conducting tests of the Naked Binders on their rigs.

They contacted us looking for strong 3-ring binders, since their old ones always fell apart.

Our new binders are looking good in front on the demolished remnants of their previous binders.  Naked Binders are getting 2 months of action to see how they hold up to the fire crews. Let the games begin! We have also offered them to a Contra Costa crew in California. It may be a race to out "test" the binders.

Until then, they are riding in style.

Customizing your 3-Ring Naked Binder or Naked Pocket Folder is easy.  You can use any label you like (or have).  We offer to make your life easier. We have tested the adhesives on these labels and found that the work well with the Naked Binders, either on the cloth, paper or raw board.

When you order the label sheets you can also download a template for your artwork.

Add your artwork to the template.  All of the labels on our site offer print to edge capabilities, meaning you can have full color artwork on each label.

We choose to use a photo that we took late at night with a long exposure.  It was simple enough and tied the labels together.  We needed labels anyway so we made these.

After you print them, You can just peel off a label...

And Adhere it to the spine of your binder.

In this case it would hae been better to go from the top down, as the classic binder has a subtle debossed line to help line up your labels.

Recycling a 3-ring binder is easy - assuming you don't have a vinyl binder.  Naked Binder shows you how you can have your eco friendly 3-ring binder ready to recycle in seconds.

Tools You Need:

Flat head (standard) Screwdriver.

9 seconds.

 Recycling a Vinyl Binder is harder.

First, pop out the ring, just as you saw above.

Next take a knife and cut open the vinyl about a half inch from the edge of each panel and on the spine. You will probably need to split the vinyl on at least two sides of each panel to remove the chipboard panels inside.

Now that you have the components, the board can go in the paper recycling, the metal in the metal recycling and the vinyl?  Now there is a good question.  time to get on the phone to find out if your city/county/state has vinyl recycling capabilities.  If not, you may need to send the vinyl scraps out of state to a place that does recycle vinyl.

If you have 6 binders, this is a pain, takes about 30 minutes, a couple dollars in postage and a bit of research.  If you are a corporation with 10,000 binders, this is more serious. Besides the time to seperate each component,  Landfills consider vinyl a toxic asset in large quantities.  The 3,000 pounds of vinyl you have will need to be shipped or stored indefinitely.

In these cases, the per binder cost sky rockets. Including labor, storage and shipping (along with short life and toxicity) into the binder price may convince you that the initial cost savings were not worth it.

If you are like most of us, you have boxes of papers, photos and other 'stuff' hidden away for when you get to it.  At one point you thought these things were too precious to get rid of, or you simply ran out of time, energy or urge to go through more of your stuff. Or you simply haven't moved in the last 10+ years.

Here is a thought. Some papers you need to be able to find, others you might like to find while still others you have no reason why you kept them in the first place.

Take a box ( or two) and separate it into like piles: tax documents, car documents, kids pictures, letters from X, articles I keep meaning to read, recipes I keep meaning to make.... You get the idea.  No getting rid of them yet.  Just sort them out.

Now take a pile. Start with things that may be easier for you to sort through.  Say, tax documents. Go through the pile, eliminate things you don't actually need.  Take the resulting pile of organized material, clip it into a 3-ring binder.

Repeat, until done.

Going through smaller piles of material allows you do finish a task in a reasonable period of time and is a LOT less daunting.  The 3-ring binders allow you to a) find things again at a later date and b) avoid starting new piles of paper because it is so easy to add to the binder.

But who wants a wall of ugly, toxic black vinyl binders in their house? Not me. But this is the 21st century and you have options.  Check out Naked Binder's 3-Ring Project Binders. 100% recycled and recyclable, stronger that an ox, and they come in 9 colors, 4 ring sizes and 2 spine shapes.  All of a sudden your organizing becomes an art project.

The 3-ring Binder has evolved.  No longer a utilitarian, toxic, disposable object to store paper in for the next few weeks.

Now you can get a 3-ring binder that is well designed, eco friendly and strong enough to last  for the next ten years. These binders look good, work well and have been tested to 250,000 flexes by an independent laboratory. We've even run them through dishwashers and they still work.

So what are we offering.  The best 3-ring binder you can buy.

2 paper sizes, 4 ring sizes, 5 styles, 9 colors. All eco Friendly, most FSC certified, all stronger better looking and more sustainable than the rest.

You can save money buying less, add joy of color to your home or office and easily recycle it when you are done 10 years from now.

Many Law firms are moving to greener pastures.

From recycling all their paper, to generating less paper, and energy efficient offices. The next step, and we are here to help, is to use a non-toxic recyclable 3-ring binder instead of the walls of vinyl.

classic binder, natural

Naked binder offers 5 styles of 3-ring binder, all eco friendly, FSC certified and ready to roll.  

We know law firms use a lot of paper, so our 2" and 2.5" ring binders (450 sheets and 550 sheets respectively) have the best locking three ring mechanism available. If you drop one of these binders striding into the courtroom, it will stay shut.

Law firms also have reputations to uphold.  You may not want your clients see you with a 'Hello Kitty' binder. We offer a range of sophisticated binders from the bare board Naked Binder, to the Classic binder - wrapped in a black paper with a 100% cotton spine wrap.

Clockwise from upper Left:  Naked Binder, Project Binder, Classic Binder, Wrapped Binder

Our easy labeling system cuts out the need to delicately feed labels into vinyl pockets on the spines of binders.  Print, adhere and go. To change it, remove the label from the spine and replace it, or just cover it up with the new label.

Having trouble deciding on the right size 3-ring binder for you?  We have the information to help you.

Easy online ordering or call an order in, discounts by the case and for larger orders.

Finding a really good pocket folder for a presentation, portfolio or even around the home or office is not as easy as it seems.

Most are cheaply made, or insanely priced. Laminated?  Crazy colors?

What about a 100% recycled eco friendly pocket folder made in the US? Simple, yet elegent.  Well made, well designed and reasonably priced.

Check out Naked Pocket Folders.

Made from FSC certified 100% recycled board (97% post consumer waste), these folders are strong, elegant and easily customizable with out labeling system.

Forget the plastic, cheap and toxic alternatives.  Get a eco freindly well designed Naked Pocket Folder!

A Sale for Love.

Valentines day is a day for romantic gestures. A time to show flair, originality and insight into your loved ones true desires.

Flowers, candy all too trite.  Been there, done that. And lets face it, you could give those flowers to anyone - it isn't personal enough.

But a 3 ring binder, now that speaks of love. Not just any binder mind you, pick the color that matches their eyes or their favorite sweater.  Pick a binder that is so environmentally friendly that you could plant it in your garden (well, pop those rings out first - those won't help the roses), so safe you could let your 2 year old chew on it (please don't let them do that with vinyl).

So this is a good start.  Now pour out your heart  and put it in the binder.  Where do you want to go together?  where ahve you been?  Favorite pictures, lists of things you love about them - all this and more.  Draw on the bare board binders - customize them to your heart's content.

With a little flair and thought - a 3 ring eco friendly binder can be the most romantic gift he/she has ever gotten. Don't over look the unique options - they might just be what you have been looking for.

And for you, all Naked Binders are 15% off this week.  A sale for love.

Valentines day is coming up and, lets face it an eco Friendly 3-ring binder just screams "I Love YOU!".

You could of course fill it with love letters, love poems, pictures of your life together, or places you might go. Naked Binders are sexy and sweet, but some of the work has to come from your end.

Naked Binder is doing our part to promote love by having a sale all week from February 8 - February 14th.

So do the right thing for your sweetie, and don't let your loved ones use vinyl.

Hinge strength:

Your average binder will fall apart under moderate use and have to be taped together with in a few months. The cover falls off - which means the hinge has failed.  The reason for this is that the strongest part of the binder - the board- does not continue through the hinge.  This leaves a small amount of vinyl or a piece of cloth is holding your whole binder together. Oops.

The Naked Binder is made from one piece of board.  We press the hinge directly into the 110pt binders board (100% post consumer waste). This leaves no weak spots on the binder (seen here on the bare board Naked Binder)

This translates to a kind of super binder status.  We had an independent laboratory flex these binders 250,000 times with out fail. If you use this binder for 34 years, 20 times a day you still will not break the hinge.

The hinge on a Naked Binder will not fail in regular use. We Guarantee it. 

Strength in the face of Water:

Our binders are made from 100% post consumer waste paper board.  Will they absorb water? Yes.  Will they fall apart? No.  How do we know? Well we started small.

First we left them out in the rain. First for 3 hours, then for two days.  They dried out flat and worked fine. So we put them through a dishwasher. Still no problems and still in use. Lets face it, if your binder gets that wet, the papers inside are already ruined.  At least you can still use your binder when you re-print everything.

A Truly Sustainable Binder:

A sustainable binder is one that will conserve resources, work well for longer, look great and save you money.

• With Naked Binder, you are not replacing binders every few months, so you buy less. 
• 100% recyclable -Cut down your waste management issues (especially if you use a log of binders). 
• Non-toxic and so will not pollute the air in your home or office.
• Acid free - these will not harm your contents
• Better Looking - with5 styles, four ring sizes, two spine styles and nine colors there is a Naked Binder for every purpose.
• Add points toward your LEED certification

They save you money, last longer and are environmentally friendly. That is a sustainable 3-ring binder.

Naked Binder creates PVC free products because we are committed to a healthier environment and healthier people living in it.

If you are not convinced about the dangers of PVC (poly vinyl chlorides), go to the The Campaign for Safe, Healthy Consumer Products. They list the studies, government regulations and other reasons to act now.

read about

• New Study: PVC Workers Exposed to High Levels of Phthalates
• Air Quality Is Now an Inside Job (The NY Times)
• PVC, the Poison Plastic – Unhealthy for Our Nation’s Children and Schools
• Our Health and PVC – What’s the Connection?
• PVC and Toxic Cleaning Products
• Top Ten Reasons Your School Should Go PVC-Free
• PVC & Environmental Justice
• PVC Policies Around the World

Learn and be amazed and appalled.  Work to do better for yourself and those around you.

Clients see presentations every day. Information parsed out in power point presentations, in vinyl binders with paper shoved into the front slot... They are bored.  No matter how good the proposal if it doesn't stand out people will forget who pitched it.

If you show up with an eco friendly 11x17 binder, you are going to show well.  For one thing, your proposal won't get lost.  Made from 100% post-consumer waste board, recycled and recyclable the 11 x17 architect binder stands out in look and feel.

Easily customized with print to edge labels, you proposal can stand out in thoughtfulness, design,originality and style on top of your already great ideas.

11x17 tabloid sized binders. Eco friendly, recycled and unique.