High-end grocery store Whole Foods Market Inc. did away with plastic cards in 2011 and replaced them with paper gift cards. “Generally, at Whole Foods, we like to think green ... but we were ...

But as environmentally conscious consumers demand more sustainable products, plastic gift cards have often flown under the radar, despite frequently ending up as plastic waste. "As someone who ...

digital gift cards inside traditional paper greeting cards. Facing rising payment card environmental-impact concerns, card networks and banks are switching from harmful virgin plastic to using ...

The gift card market is expected to exceed $140 billion in sales by 2016, according to CEB TowerGroup. Consumers who receive these cards are likely to discard the material after they use them, many ...

Gift cards are also wasteful in another way. They’re made of environmentally unfriendly plastic and consume a lot of resources. And when they’re discarded, they often wind up in landfills.

National Business Products creates, produces and distributes plastic gift and loyalty cards for thousands of businesses, restaurants and other merchants across the country including Wal-Mart ...

Plastic Jungle, a marketplace for gift cards, is hoping to shakeup the gift card market by allowing gift card owners to use certificates for a given store at another online retail establishment.

For the 16th year in a row, gift cards will be the most requested ... Plastics which aims to reduce single-use plastic. "These polyvinyl chloride cards are on the naughty list this year," said ...