Make it Meaningful
with Earth Elements™
Appeal to the generations leading the charge to protect and remove contaminants from the environment, by offering payment cards designed to reduce first-use plastic. Introduce a new program that embodies your sustainability commitments and captures cardholder attention, or incorporate these upcycled products into your existing designs.
All Earth Elements™ cards are:
Compliant with EMVCo standards
Dual interface capable
Second Wave®
Payment cards featuring a core made recovered ocean-bound plastic
Offer your cardholders beautifully designed payment cards featuring a core made with plastic that has been diverted from entering the world's oceans, waterways and shorelines.
CPI estimates that for every one million Second Wave® payment cards produced, over one ton of plastic will be diverted from entering the world’s oceans, waterways and shorelines.
To date, CPI has manufactured 25 million Second Wave credit and debit cards for financial institutions.
Earthwise™
Recycled Polyvinyl Chloride (rPVC)
The rPVC upcycled card product is an economical, eco-focused option that allows issuers to introduce products that appeal to environmentally-conscious consumers. The overall upcycled content of the rPVC cards is approximately 85%, dependent upon design.
Earthwise™
Recycled Polyethylene Terephthalate Glycol (rPETG)
The Earthwise High Content Card is the first payment card product on the market that offers up to 98% upcycled plastic content,
A premium upcycled payment card product created from the same plastic commonly found in clear plastic packaging. The High Content Card (HCC) offers the highest percentage of upcycled plastic in a dual-interface payment card by utilizing post-industrial plastic for all card layers.