save up your used staples by feeding them into the hopper of this hand-held device and they will stack up neatly as they fall.

When the hopper is full, a smart smack on the other end will glue, bend and deliver a row of shiny new staples ready for use.
-- po, Nov 17 2010

Another way. http://www.google.c...wBA&biw=994&bih=768
[mouseposture, Nov 17 2010]

Here's a way to get more use out of them A_20staple_20form_20of_20memory
[normzone, Nov 17 2010]

Used staples suffer from metal fatigue, so I'm not sure they can be reused. To recycle the metal, your device would have to contain a mini-forge and something to roll out the molten metal into a sheet and then press staples out of it.
-- hippo, Nov 17 2010


[+] I would give it a go! Oftentimes staples just fall out and are not even bent. I also use them for putting up bulletin boards, so those don't bend like putting them into paper. [hippo] is right about staples that have been totally bent in half.
-- xandram, Nov 17 2010


//a mini-forge and something to roll out the molten metal into a sheet and then press staples out of it// [+]

More seriously: staples aren't manufactured to such precise tolerances that they're guaranteed to fail after exactly one use. Some will fail after 2, some after 3, & so on. If the device can recognize & discard failures, and if the stapler can tolerate occasional failures (which, obviously, it can and does) then metal fatigue should be no problem.

Or you can recycle staples this way: <link>
-- mouseposture, Nov 17 2010


I like this as an emblem for laborious and ultimately pointless recycling efforts - like capturing shower water in a basin as the shower warms up and bringing it outside to water plants.
-- bungston, Nov 17 2010


At least that gives the second assistant under-gardener something to do on cold mornings.
-- 8th of 7, Nov 17 2010


Not on my estate. She has to warm up the second assistant gardener.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Nov 17 2010


would that be you by any chance?
-- po, Nov 18 2010


If he doesn't answer, try a smart smack on the other end.
-- pertinax, Nov 23 2010



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