Around the globe, there are currently 5bn mobile phone users, and one billion new handsets are bought each year. That equals a huge pile of phone cases heading to landfill or, worse, the oceans. POPSICASEs are made from discarded fishing nets from the Mediterranean Sea and scrap aluminium. 640,000 tons (1.28 billion pounds) of fishing gear left in the ocean each year killing an average of 1000 whales, seals, turtles and birds every day.