What is a Sustainable Phone Case?

We are not only committed to providing our customers with sustainable products, but also to helping to educate the public on what makes something sustainable and how to make sustainable choices. Two key factors we teach our customers to look for when selecting a product are the materials it is made from, and what its end of life will look like.

Materials

To create a sustainable product, companies should avoid the use of synthetic, petroleum-based materials, which require more energy to produce, may produce toxic chemicals and fumes during the process of manufacturing, and are typically non-recycled and non-recyclable. One common greenwashing technique many companies use is advertising their products as “plant-based” when they only contain 10 or 20% plant-derived materials and are otherwise made from synthetics.

Signature Flaxstic material is made from 45% plant-based materials. The back panel of our new Clear case is made from 100% plant-based materials.

End of Life

The ideal end of life for a phone case should be less than 1 year, and should not result in the leaching of any harmful chemicals into the soil or water, or produce any microplastics. To achieve this, you should choose products that are certified as compostable, and be sure that the product is certified through a third party and not by the manufacturer themselves. 

The Case is designed to fully compost in under 6 months, making it the only compostable phone case currently on the market. This image shows how Case gracefully goes back into nature.

12 Week Compost Test: Conventional Case

Here are images from our latest 12 week compost test. So can see how(right) compares to a conventional phone case (left). For this test, we bury both cases into an industrial compost near our office in Kelowna, BC, Canada. The compost is turned and tended to by the facility, we just visit every few weeks to take photos and check on our results. As you can see, the case has almost completely broken down after 12 weeks, while the traditional case is largely intact