• Chipolo and Secrid have partnered on a new wallet
• It can be tracked, and can find your phone in return
• The tracking is both Android and iOS compatible

As part of Sustainability Week here on TechRadar, we're on the look-out for gadgets that are both useful and kind to the planet — and the new Chipolo x Secrid Miniwallet Trackable certainly fits that description.

That's Bluetooth tracker experts Chipolo partnering with speciality wallet makers Secrid, to make something that can carry your cash and cards — and that can also be quickly found from your phone if it gets lost.

As for the sustainability credentials, the wallet is locally produced in Europe and made from "responsibly sourced materials", which includes at least 50% recycled plastic for the tracking card device and ethically sourced leather for the wallet.

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The wallet is capable of holding a few notes, plus up to nine cards, which slide out from the top of the wallet via a patented system that Secrid uses in some of its other wallets. The overall size is 21 mm x 65 mm x 102 mm (0.8 in x 2.6 in x 4.0 in).

"Born from a shared belief in thoughtful design and local production, Chipolo and Secrid made this wallet to improve your everyday life," reads the marketing blurb. "The Secrid Miniwallet is precisely tuned to allow Chipolo Card to perform at its full potential."

You can pre-order the wallet now in the US and the UK for $140 and £120 respectively, from either Amazon or the Chipolo website (as yet, there's no news of a launch in Australia). Your two color options are black and blue.

Cross-platform compatibility

As the wallet comes with an embedded Chipolo Card tracker, it can be located through the Chipolo app, as well as through the device tracking apps available from Apple (Find My) and Google (Find Hub).

In addition to seeing where your wallet is on a map, you can get the Miniwallet Trackable to make a sound up to 110 decibels so you can figure out exactly where it's got to. The wallet has apparently been specially designed to maximize that volume level.

You can do some reverse tracking too: there's a button on the wallet you can press that will trigger a sound on your smartphone, as long as you've got the Chipolo app installed. If you've got your cards and cash but can't find your phone, this can help.

The card tracker should last for around a year between recharges — depending on how often you lose it and have to activate its ringing sound — and recharging can be done via any Qi-compatible wireless charger.

Without having tested it out, I'm impressed by what the Miniwallet Trackable offers compared to, say, the Apple AirTags — there's no need to remember to pack in an extra tracker, and it can be easily tracked from both Android and iOS devices.

As someone who uses plenty of Apple devices and non-Apple devices day to day, cross-platform compatibility is a must really. If you'd rather just have the Chipolo Card on its own, that's yours for $38.99 or £38.99.

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Dave is a freelance tech journalist who has been writing about gadgets, apps and the web for more than two decades. Based out of Stockport, England, on TechRadar you'll find him covering news, features and reviews, particularly for phones, tablets and wearables. Working to ensure our breaking news coverage is the best in the business over weekends, David also has bylines at Gizmodo, T3, PopSci and a few other places besides, as well as being many years editing the likes of PC Explorer and The Hardware Handbook.