Bank of Ireland to roll out bio-sourced cards

Obtainable for each private and enterprise prospects, the cardboard is made out of 84% bio-sourced renewable supplies reminiscent of discipline corn and takes simply six months to decompose in contrast to its plastic equal, which takes round 400 years.

When the total portfolio of playing cards is switched to bio-sourced playing cards, a undertaking anticipated to be accomplished by 2026, Financial institution of Eire will save 17 tonnes of CO2 and 4.48 tonnes of plastic (equal to over 160,000 500ml plastic bottles) per 12 months.

Alongside the swap to sustainable cqards, the Financial institution can also be upgrading the design with flat-printed numbers at an elevated font measurement and a notch lower out of the cardboard to assist individuals insert it right into a card machine or ATM the suitable manner.

The bio-sourced playing cards will probably be offered to all new prospects, present prospects as their outdated playing cards expire, and as a substitute for broken, misplaced or stolen playing cards.

The Financial institution first launched bio-sourced debit playing cards for third-level college students in September 2020.

Eamonn Hughes, chief sustainability & investor relations officer at Financial institution of Eire Group, says: “The environmental credentials of those bio-sourced playing cards are exceptionally robust and with 60,000 already being utilized by third-level college students, we are going to now radically develop the rollout throughout our whole playing cards enterprise in Eire and the UK.”