While phone grips are a relatively new invention, they have had massive gains in popularity. Unfortunately as you cannot remove the grip, it has been inevitable that grips are finding their way to landfills. With the current standard design of phone grips, they are difficult to remove and near impossible to reuse. But magnetic grips make all that a thing of the past, and you can now easily remove and reuse a phone grip!
One Use Phone Grips
PopSockets® and their competitors are made to attach to a phones and cases firmly and securely … and also permanently. Once you put the grip on, that’s where it stays. And as if it’s not bad enough that you can’t take it off when you’re done with it, you also can’t take it off if you attached the pop socket off centre. Current grip are truly one use items, you cannot reuse them easily. And removing them can be a challenge in and of itself, so much so that there’s even a wikihow page dedicated to how to get your PopSockets® off.
The Difficulty of Recycling Phones with Grips
The issue of removing your grip can be a bigger problem than some people realize. If you want to keep your phone slim and use it without a case, the grip attaches directly to the phone. If you want to put the phone in your pocket, you have a bulge. Or the grip can get caught on things in a purse. Also, the permanent grip is a great way to go until it’s time to resell or recycle your phone at which point you have no choice but to go through the painful process of removing the phone grip. Because phones can’t be recycled with a grip and people don’t want to buy them with a grip already attached.
The Difficulty of Recycling Phone Grips
Once you do manage to remove the grip, it will end up in the landfill because the grip cannot be reattached to another phone. And these grips that are making their way to landfills are increasingly becoming a bigger and bigger problem. In fact, it has become such an issue that recently a whole new recycling initiative has begun to be able to recycle PopSockets® … but as always the catch is getting the grip to the recycler which can be more trouble than people want to go through, so the pop sockets end up in the landfill … by the tens of million.
Magnets Make Removing and Reusing Phone Grips Easy
But enjoying a useful life hack like the grip doesn’t have to kill the environment. In fact you can keep the same grip and move it from case to case or phone to phone without a problem if you use a magnetic grip like Grip on the Go or even a magnetic Popsocket©. Using a magnetic grip saves a lot of things, like it saves you money because you can reuse the grip.
It save you pain and frustration removing the grip when you try to sell or recycle the phone. And is saves the landfill yet another piece of trash. And that’s all on top of all the other benefits you get from being able to put it on or remove it from your phone whenever you feel like it.
Just like technology for phones has advanced over the years, it is time for phone accessories to advance as well. Simply gluing things together is a thing of the past as Apple has clearly shown with their new iPhone 12 which has a magnetic ring on the back. And the perfect way to use the magnetic ring is to get a magnetic grip … a reusable pop socket that will never cost you more money and will never have to end up in landfill.