According to Mastercard, “the Mastercard Sustainable Materials Directory aims to help issuers offer more eco-friendly cards to consumers” and they have issued a sustainability badge to identify cards that have been certified through the program as meeting current industry benchmarks.
CPI encourages Mastercard issuers purchasing Second Wave
® and Earthwise
® rPVC cards to add the Mastercard Sustainable Card Badge to their debit or credit cards.
Since 2020 CPI has also been a proud member of the Greener Payment Partnership (GPP) formed by Mastercard and other major card manufacturers with a goal to reduce first-use PVC plastic in card manufacturing.
In January 2023, the GPP collectively authored
A Guide to Issuing Sustainable Cards.