Plastic gift cards are energy hungry to manufacture, they are not environmentally friendly, can be challenging to recycle and most of them end up in landfill, where they remain. The UK Government has set out its 25 Year Environment Plan that includes looking across the whole lifecycle and how the tax system or charges could reduce the amount of single use plastics waste.
With more and more businesses now pledging to eradicate single-use plastics in an effort to tackle the global plastic pollution crisis, now is the right time to switch from plastic cards to environmentally friendly ones and it couldn’t be easier.
Gift cards are big business. In the UK the total market is currently worth over £5.6bn1.
Across 28 European countries, gift and incentive cards currently represent a prepaid market opportunity of €60.3bn a year2.
Up to now, companies have been restricted to mostly non-environmentally friendly materials and processes when choosing cards. Or faced higher charges and greater creative restrictions on the few green options available.
Not any more. Green Gift Cards offer you ten card formats across three materials. And often cheaper, quicker and greener than the alternatives – without sacrificing quality
In the UK gift cards are now a £5bn industry1
in Great Britain have purchased gift cards in the last 12 months1
prepaid market opportunity a year across 28 European countries2
Source
1 UKGCVA 2014
2 Business Wire, June 2012
We promise a convenient end-to-end service. We deliver faster and with less environmental impact than many of the other options available to you.
Our proven workflow system and efficient production process ensures a reassuringly smooth service. Our unique patents and revolutionary materials help your organisation reduce the amount of single or limited use plastics that goes into landfill as well as helping you to meet your corporate social responsibility targets. And at all times reducing your carbon footprint and keeping costs low.
All of which means going green doesn’t have to be expensive.
Thanks to Green Gift Cards, taking the greener option doesn't have to come with a hefty price tag. Our environmentally-friendly varnished cards cost up to 58% less than PVC. You can also save in postage charges by taking advantage of Royal Mail's discounts on sustainable advertising mail. Even more savings are available both in terms of cost and the environment as Green Gift Cards weigh half as much as their PVC equivalent, therefore less expensive to transport, using less fuel.
GRAPH This illustrates cost saving based on a run of 250,000 GGC3 on PGC 720-790 micron compared to the equivalent card from the leading PVC alternative
Because our production process contains fewer stages than other less green options, we can save you time.
We offer a turnaround of:
Our end-to-end service also ensures that your project runs smoothly and efficiently, from start to finish.
turnaround for print production
turnaround for print production and personalisation
Our Green Gift Cards can help you reduce your environmental impact.
They’re produced using materials that have been thoroughly tested, and which come with environmental accreditation.
They’re created with Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®) certified paper, which means that wood used to make this paper comes from responsibly managed forests and other controlled sources. This makes them the only true alternative for businesses wishing to choose sustainable printed products and reduce their plastic consumption. Switching to Green Gift Cards will help you to reduce landfill from obsolete and spent gift cards and at the same time remove the burden on brands and consumers when it comes to managing their gift card waste …our cards can go into landfill where they compost or be recycled easily with no negative environmental impact.
Our card comes from responsible sources produced at FSC® certified mills to a ISO14001 environmental management standard
Green Gift Cards are available in CR80 and M6, with ten different card formats. The patent for our unique snap format M6 card die cut means we’re the only manufacturer able to produce M6 cards with a CR80 snap in cardboard with a clean edge, no nasty perforation.
You can choose from a wide range of embellishments including gloss laminate, soft touch, textured, gloss or matt varnish, foils and Micro Motion® on the card face, and a range of options on the reverse.
| Size: | 86mm x 54mm |
| Material: | VGC 590mic, 660mic MGC 640mic, 720mic PGC 640mic, 720mic |
| Printing: | Printed 4 colour process to face and either black or 4 colour process to reverse |
| Finish: | Gloss and matt machine varnish, eco gloss and matt laminate |
| Finishing: | Ram punch with option with and without eco laminate |
| Personalise: | Magnetic stripe and encoding, DOD barcode, PIN with scratch panel, signature panel |
| Size: | 86mm x 54mm Carrier 86mm x 98mm |
| Material: | VGC 590mic, 660mic MGC 640mic, 720mic PGC 640mic, 720mic |
| Printing: | Printed 4 colour process to face and either black or 4 colour process to reverse |
| Finish: | Gloss and matt machine varnish, eco gloss and matt laminate |
| Finishing: | Ram punch with with Euro slot on carrier; CR80 affixed to carrier with removable glue |
| Personalise: | Magnetic stripe and encoding, DOD barcode, PIN with scratch panel, signature panel |
| Size: | 86mm x 124mm |
| Material: | VGC 590mic, 660mic MGC 640mic, 720mic PGC 640mic, 720mic |
| Printing: | Printed 4 colour process to face and either black or 4 colour process to reverse |
| Finish: | Gloss and matt machine varnish, eco gloss and matt laminate |
| Finishing: | Ram punch with Euro slot |
| Personalise: | Magnetic stripe and encoding, DOD barcode, PIN with scratch panel, signature panel |
| Size: | 86mm x 124mm |
| Material: | VGC 590mic, 660mic MGC 640mic, 720mic PGC 640mic, 720mic |
| Printing: | Printed 4 colour process to face and either black or 4 colour process to reverse |
| Finish: | Gloss and matt machine varnish, eco gloss and matt laminate |
| Finishing: | Ram punch with patented Concora Cut (to give separate CR80) and Euro slot |
| Personalise: | Magnetic stripe and encoding, DOD barcode, PIN with scratch panel, signature panel; options available to apply data to both body of the card and CR80 |
| Size: | 86mm x 124mm |
| Material: | VGC 590mic, 660mic MGC 640mic, 720mic PGC 640mic, 720mic |
| Printing: | Printed 4 colour process to face and either black or 4 colour process to reverse |
| Finish: | Gloss and matt machine varnish, eco gloss and matt laminate |
| Finishing: | Ram punch with horizontal perforation (to give separate CR80) and Euro slot |
| Personalise: | Magnetic stripe and encoding, DOD barcode, PIN with scratch panel, signature panel; options available to apply data to both body of the card and CR80 |
| Size: | 86mm x 124mm |
| Material: | VGC 590mic, 660mic MGC 640mic, 720mic PGC 640mic, 720mic |
| Printing: | Printed 4 colour process to face and either black or 4 colour process to reverse |
| Finish: | Gloss and matt machine varnish, eco gloss and matt laminate |
| Finishing: | Ram punch with 2 x patented Concora Cut (to give two separate CR80s) and Euro slot |
| Personalise: | Magnetic stripe and encoding, DOD barcode, PIN with scratch panel, signature panel; options available to apply data to both CR80 cards |
| Size: | 86mm x 133mm |
| Material: | VGC 590mic, 660mic MGC 640mic, 720mic PGC 640mic, 720mic |
| Printing: | Printed 4 colour process to face and either black or 4 colour process to reverse |
| Finish: | Gloss and matt machine varnish, eco gloss and matt laminate |
| Finishing: | Ram punch with Euro slot |
| Personalise: | Magnetic stripe and encoding, DOD barcode, PIN with scratch panel, signature panel |
| Size: | 86mm x 133mm |
| Material: | VGC 590mic, 660mic MGC 640mic, 720mic PGC 640mic, 720mic |
| Printing: | Printed 4 colour process to face and either black or 4 colour process to reverse |
| Finish: | Gloss and matt machine varnish, eco gloss and matt laminate |
| Finishing: | Ram punch with patented Concora Cut (to give separate CR80) and Euro slot |
| Personalise: | Magnetic stripe and encoding, DOD barcode, PIN with scratch panel, signature panel; options available to apply data to both body of the card and CR80 |
| Size: | 86mm x 133mm |
| Material: | VGC 590mic, 660mic MGC 640mic, 720mic PGC 640mic, 720mic |
| Printing: | Printed 4 colour process to face and either black or 4 colour process to reverse |
| Finish: | Gloss and matt machine varnish, eco gloss and matt laminate |
| Finishing: | Ram punch with horizontal perforation (to give separate CR80) and Euro slot |
| Personalise: | Magnetic stripe and encoding, DOD barcode, PIN with scratch panel, signature panel; options available to apply data to both body of the card and CR80 |
| Size: | 86mm x 124mm (sleeve) |
| Material: | VGC 500mic |
| Printing: | Printed 4 colour process to outside and black or 4 colour process to inside |
| Finish: | Gloss and matt machine varnish, eco gloss and matt laminate |
| Finishing: | Die cut to shape to include Euro slot |
| Personalise: | Gift card for use with chit/till receipt |
The cardboard we use is FSC® and produced in state of the art fossil fuel admission free mills.
It conforms to ISO9706 requirements for permanence, and therefore is suitable for applications requiring acid-free paper.
The eco laminate we use also complies with En 13432 and ASTM D 6400 standards for biodegradability and compostability5.
Source
5 Age testing January 2012
Find out why our production process is faster, how our materials are greener than other options, and how we can help you save on postage rates. Request our whitepaper and discover more about the growing business opportunities of gift cards, and why Green Gift Cards are the Cheaper, Quicker and Greener alternative.
If you would like to actually feel and see the quality of the three Green Gift Card materials, we will happily send you a sample pack.
Finally, if you would like to place an order, or if you have any questions and would like to speak to someone in person, then either call us on 01794 725 454 or request a call back.
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