Case-Mate Offers iPhone Cases Made From Recycled Plastic

Recycling is always a good thing.

Do you think these are recycled from the tens of thousands of useless cases that they manufactured for the "iPhone 5"?

Not just recycled but—equally important—recyclable! Except... I don’t see a recycling symbol, just a logo. Hopefully the symbols is there (might well not show in those little photos). Otherwise, they’re recyclable in theory but not in practice...

Price

Plastic in a water bottle–1 dollar.
Same amount of plastic in a case-30 dollars.

I guarantee Case-Mate is profiting from this - and they should, but it's just funny that people still fall for the recycling mantra..

Kaibelf said:

Do you think these are recycled from the tens of thousands of useless cases that they manufactured for the "iPhone 5"?

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I am pretty Sure these ones are from the useless cases made for iPhone 5

Trying to make such a crazy profit margin by pressing on people's consciousness about recycling... makes me sick.

$30 for a case? My soda bottle (with the soda) costs less than $3. They should rename this to "you be environmentally conscious and let us take care of the money"!

Ridiculous crap.

I hope that these are more resistant to discolouring than their Gelli cases. I've got a clear one that has turned yellow - almost brown - and my daughter's bright pink on is now a dirty red colour

Agent 18 has been doing this for years.

http://www.agent18.com/product_search?keys=ecoshield

GSPice said:

I guarantee Case-Mate is profiting from this - and they should, but it's just funny that people still fall for the recycling mantra..

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Well no kidding they're making money off this, it doesn't say anywhere that they're doing this on a charity basis does it?

Menopause said:

$30 for a case? My soda bottle (with the soda) costs less than $3. They should rename this to "you be environmentally conscious and let us take care of the money"!

Ridiculous crap.

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I feel this could be said about almost any "made from recycled material" product. It's all garbage. You can buy recycled motor oil for damn near the same price as brand new motor oil. Um, yeah... No thanks!!

Move along if you're looking for a sucker.

A bottle of water doesn't cost $30 and neither should an iPhone case.

Pakaku said:

Recycling is always a good thing.

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i love how you get downvoted for mentioning "recycling" ... oh wait, this is an american board also known as world polluter #2

afawcett said:

A bottle of water doesn't cost $30 and neither should an iPhone case.

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an iPhone doesnt cost $650 to make either yet u buy it not that i'm gonna buy that case, but thats cuz its ugly

bushido said:

an iPhone doesnt cost $650 to make either yet u buy it not that i'm gonna buy that case, but thats cuz its ugly

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I'm not sure I call it ugly, but it definitely isn't esthetically pleasing either.

Of course since peoples tastes do differ, some will probably love the design.

Ummm....when the iPhone 4/4s becomes obsolete, won't that obsolete case still take 1000 years to decompose.....just sayin'

bushido said:

i love how you get downvoted for mentioning "recycling" ... oh wait, this is an american board also known as world polluter #2




an iPhone doesnt cost $650 to make either yet u buy it not that i'm gonna buy that case, but thats cuz its ugly

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There's so much more that goes behind just raw hardware parts. Melting plastic and molding it into a case doesn't cost $29.95 per case.

I understand everyone's shock at the price. But to some people, 30 bucks is a small price to pay for feeling good about themselves. Sad.

Remember when people were pushing the pros of recycling and they said things would cost less? I guess they stopped trying to sell that lie.

bushido said:

i love how you get downvoted for mentioning "recycling" ... oh wait, this is an american board also known as world polluter #2




an iPhone doesnt cost $650 to make either yet u buy it not that i'm gonna buy that case, but thats cuz its ugly

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Actually, if you want to talk per capita, the US is #1 for pollution (China doesn't even make the top 30 thanks to their population but they do hold #1 for overall polluting).

But if you want to talk about economics, discussing the pricing of an item based on recurring costs is a bit silly. One could also point out the cost of a BMW or Mercedes is far more than the cost to make it. Or the cost of most medicines should be pennies, or a few euro cents. Now, if we can just get the scientists to work for free, the government to let everyone by-pass all the testing and throw out all the legal cases when people claim they were harmed by the product, we'd be all set. ;-)

ok, i'm obviously being facetious but the point is the market will decide the appropriate price. For myself, spending $30 to recycle 1 bottle is a poor use of money and will have no impact on the environment. I would rather throw the bottle in my recycling bin and donate the money to a good cause. Money is also a limited resource and throwing it away won't help us clean up the planet.

I did a 30 page report on recycling... as I recall, when bottles are made into recycled goods (most aren't - ~70% of those put in recycling bins are sent to landfills because the demand for such bottles is far less than the supply) - it often goes through a chemical process that results in the material used to make the good + byproducts that go in the landfill and take forever to decompose.

I'm curious whether the process they apply to the bottles to make them into cases results in a byproduct or not.

(Ultimately, in my report I concluded that a new system that doesn't involve chemically altering the bottles needs to be done. I proposed a system in which the bottles are returned to their manufacturers, who then clean the bottle and ship it off like new.)

Recycling is a good thing but for $30? Just pick up an excellent Magpul case for $9.

You too can buy some crappy 30 dollar case made from 3 cents of recycled bottle plastic so you can feel less guilty and more stupid. Both at the same time !

Yet it costs $30...

Either they're trying to create a huge profit margin or they don't want us to buy the environmentally conscious case and rather another higher quality case for the same price.