It’s 8:55 a.m., five minutes to deadline. You’ve just printed your term paper after completing it only hours earlier and are prepared to make a mad dash to the lecture hall when you reach for the library stapler, only to realize that—groan—the idiot before you has left it jammed.

Postsecondary students know this feeling well, and we can all agree there are few things more irritating than a nonfunctioning stapler. Luckily, this staple-free gadget ($11.79) will save you from any last-minute panics.

By cutting a small strip in your pile of sheets and looping them together, it forgoes the need for metal staples—billions of which end up in landfills every year.

Find it at Staples (various locations).