Document Wallet, Cotton Tie

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A three-flap document wallet in 400 GSM board with a 15 mm gusset and a 12 mm cotton tape tie, for the set of papers that has to stay together and stay flat. The word recycled on a stationery item usually appears with no number beside it, which makes it a decoration rather than a claim. Recycled can mean 5 percent mill broke, which is offcuts the mill made itself and would have re-pulped anyway, and it can mean 90 percent post-consumer, which is paper that came back from a household. Those are not the same thing and the gap is the whole reason the word is used without a figure. So the figure is the claim here, and the split is printed.

• Board is 80 percent recycled fibre, and 60 percent of the total is post-consumer, from the mill's fibre furnish declaration and checked by fibre microscopy on a lot sample. The remaining 20 percent is virgin long fibre, which is what holds the folding endurance up
• Because it is recycled board, it carries mineral oil residues from printing inks, the MOSH and MOAH fractions. That is a property of recovered paper, not a defect. It is also the exact reason the kitchen towel on this store refuses recycled fibre, and it is fine here because nothing in a document wallet touches food
• Folding endurance measured to ISO 5626 on the spine crease. The fold lines are creased on a rule before folding, not just folded, so the coating does not crack open along the hinge at the first use
• Tie is 12 mm cotton tape, 100 percent cotton by fibre identification, not a polyester tape finished to look like cotton. It is anchored through a punched hole and knotted inside, so it cannot pull out
• Capacity about 150 sheets of 75 GSM at A4, which is the 15 mm gusset filled
• Uncoated and unlaminated. It takes a pen and a pencil directly, and it will mark and soften with handling, which is what an unlaminated board does
• No metal, no plastic clip, no press stud. The whole thing goes into paper recycling as it is
• Sizes: A5 for the folded set, A4 for the ordinary file, Foolscap for the older Indian formats that will not fit an A4 wallet
• Rs 290 at A5, Rs 380 at A4, Rs 430 at Foolscap