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My first iPhone case went to a shambles not long after I bought it. Well, after it was bought for me—it was a gift, but it came directly from the AT&T store with the sales rep's vote of confidence as being the second or third-most sturdy case they had.
Not even two months later, the silicon-like edges were peeling and cracking. So I started looking at new cases, searching online for ones made from recycled materials. I found the bamboo slider from Incase—a case made from 40-percent reclaimed bamboo shards? Sold.
The shards are collected from used materials like construction scaffolding and chopsticks. The rest of the case is polypropylene and, while it's still a virgin or first-use material (my least favorite characteristic when buying...anything), the company promises a level of protection equal to that of its other cases—the kind of protection my first case was supposed to provide. So at least it would last and prevent me from having to go through this again—as well as from damaging the phone, since I can't say I'm not clumsy.
I've already had it longer than the amount of time I'd had the rubber/plastic case, and the bamboo slider is holding up beautifully. (I may have even dropped it once or twice—barely a scratch.) The color options are great—mine is black with little flecks of grey, or if you want to get fancy, "black pepper." And good (green) protection frees up time to focus on the other green stuff the phone can do.
