Our Sustainability Journey
This planet is a shared resource, and a shared responsibility. At Otter Products, we’ve taken concrete steps to reduce our environmental impact, enhance our processes, and improve our stewardship. Not because we had to – because it’s the right thing to do.
Our Commitment
As part of our commitment to society, our people and the planet, we leverage EcoVadis, a global standard in business sustainability ratings, to rate our performance and understand where we can improve and make a bigger impact across the world.
The EcoVadis assessment includes 21 sustainability criteria across four core themes: Environment, Labour & Human Rights, Ethics and Sustainable Procurement.
In June 2026, we earned an EcoVadis Committed Badge, demonstrating our continued progress and dedication to advancing sustainability across our business. This marks our third consecutive year receiving the recognition. Our overall EcoVadis assessment score increased from 2025 to 2026, with improvements in Environmental reporting, Labor & Human Rights practices, and Sustainable Procurement measures.
In house
Our efforts always focus on the area where we have the most control – actions inside our own four walls. Otter Products’ global sustainability journey includes better benchmarking and calculating of our energy, water, waste and greenhouse gas emissions data to understand our year-over-year progress.
For example, from 2024 to 2025, our facilities in Ireland and China reduced their annual emissions by 5%. While our global offices are already efficient, this small change is equivalent to the carbon savings from planting 10 trees and having them grow for 10 years![1]
Our North America facilities and headquarters reduced 26% of their electricity use and 65% of their natural gas from 2024 to 2025. Reducing our electricity use at that level is like charging your smartphone over 31 million times.[1]
Diving deeper with an extensive internal assessment of our practices, we identified and eliminated waste, from the breakroom to the warehouse to the boardroom. In 2024, our main distribution centre waste reached an over 90% diversion rate from the landfill.
We also continue to minimise our battery and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and packaging footprint across our regions in accordance with EU environmental policy. Otter Products contributes to various recycling compliance schemes and we’re constantly improving our Extended Producer Responsibility. [More information on our compliance schemes partnerships can be found here].
In product
We earned our reputation building reliable, long-lasting phone and tablet accessories that can take a thrashing. Today, our most popular smartphone designs contain over 30% recycled content.
We’re proud that certain products have earned an Environmental Claim Validation for Recycled Content from UL, one of the most respected third-party testing and validation bodies. Products bearing the UL Environmental Claim Validation Mark undergo routine audits and rigorous testing to prove they contain recycled content, further providing peace of mind to our customers.
From 2021–2025, we have used more than 6.5 million pounds of recycled content in our cases. There are many paths to curb our impact, and we had to make a choice: take the trail of composting or the road of recycling? With composting, there’s a short-term benefit of not necessarily adding waste. Yet they require new materials for production and industrial composting to break down. We believe there’s an alternative solution to help reduce pollution. By building phone cases using recycled materials, there’s a long-term impact of pulling existing materials out of the environment, giving them a second life, instead of sending them to the landfill.
In package
What’s inside our recycled phone cases is important. What they ship in is equally significant. That’s why we redesigned our retail packaging to replace nearly all plastic with materials that are fully recyclable and ready for your at-home recycling bin.
How we get our products onto shelves has changed as well — our new packaging takes up a lot less space on a shipping pallet. That lets us stack more phone cases, screen protectors, chargers and cable products into each load, which reduces delivery emissions.
Lastly, we’re always improving how our packaging comes together to ensure it includes all the information you need while remaining in the most optimised format. Our current designs include recyclability and material information for various countries. In line with the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation, we have minimised our retail boxes to reduce unnecessary layers, empty space, and single-use plastic materials. Our packaging materials also comply with our Global Restricted Substance Policy and contain no PFAS or heavy metals.
Supply Chain Transparency
We comply with all applicable Modern Slavery laws and regulations, including the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015 and the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act. Our supplier contracts require compliance with these and other relevant laws.[2]
Otter Products’ suppliers undergo routine responsible sourcing audits to ensure fair business practices throughout our supply chain. We work with different suppliers to understand their environmental and social impacts, then create systems supporting sustainability.
On the horizon
We are proud of the strides we have made in 2025, and we aren’t stopping there. In 2026, we will continue to calculate our carbon footprint to better understand our impact. By understanding and benchmarking our emissions throughout our value chain, we can continue our focus of building a smarter, leaner and greener brand. For us, for you and for the planet.
[1] According to: https://www.epa.gov/energy/greenhouse-gas-equivalencies-calculator
[2] https://www.otterbox.co.uk/en‑gb/modern‑slavery‑statement.html
