hippo is a hand dyed leather notebook cover designed to make use of all of your printer paper. so with all of that one sided mail and printer paper no longer needed don't recycle it yet. simply cut it in half, punch 2 holes in the centre and re-tie the leather string. each piece of paper will then get maximum use in a bid to reduce, re-use and recycle. hippo is made from rustic looking hand dyed and polished vegetable tanned leather.