{"id":1056,"date":"2020-08-16T05:54:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T05:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/?p=1056"},"modified":"2020-08-16T05:54:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T05:54:38","slug":"moving-towards-an-eco-friendly-credit-card-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/moving-towards-an-eco-friendly-credit-card-lifestyle\/","title":{"rendered":"Are We Moving Towards an Eco-Friendly Credit Card Lifestyle?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Debit card and Credit card providers are joining the eco-friendly card production movement to replace the traditional plastic cards.<\/p>\n
MasterCard, one of the largest credit card providers in the world decided to go green, announced by the company last month. The company is launching its first eco-friendly credit card- sustainable credit cards<\/a>.<\/p>\n MasterCard stated that these cards will be recyclable, bio-sourced, chlorine-free, and ocean safe. It can be good news for the world which is already suffering from various man-made calamities globally.<\/p>\n At present, card producers use PVC plastic to manufacture the debit and credit cards we use every day. These cards are not biodegradable. Hence, the plastic can harm our nature in many ways.<\/p>\n Already, nature protection communities around the world showed their concerns about the plastic cards which retain its form for decades.<\/p>\n The number of plastic cards produced each year can be alarming for us. The global payment card production number is around 6 billion each year, according to Euronews<\/a>. On the other hand, UK residents alone ordered 62 million credit cards in July 2019.<\/p>\nBillions of Credit Card Produced Globally Each Year<\/h2>\n