Recycling plastic badges and cards

What to do with unwanted plastic badges and cards?
We often throw them in the garbage can, because traditional recycling sites don't accept them.

Zero Waste™ Boxes offer a practical solution for recycling these items. Thanks to them, plastic badges and cards are sorted and transformed into reusable recycled material, instead of being landfilled or incinerated.

The Zero Waste™ Box represents an innovative approach to recycling, based on the all-in-one concept. Indeed, the cost of this product encompasses not only the container itself (the box), but also all the services associated with the recycling process.

Thus, the Zero Waste™ Box solution includes the following elements:

• The cardboard recycling box.
• Transport to the local TerraCycle® Center by UPS.
• Recycling the products contained in the box.

These boxes can be used to recycle the following products:

• All PVC card formats. Example: PVC loyalty cards, gift cards or bank cards.
• Identity cards and new driving licenses.

The introduction of other types of waste can also lead to additional costs associated with the need for additional selective sorting. We therefore recommend that you do not include:

• Cardboard cards
• Electronic waste (e.g. card readers)
• Any waste considered hazardous (sharp, flammable, reactive, corrosive, radioactive, toxic, infectious or pathogenic) that presents a risk to people and/or the environment.
• Medical waste, broken glass, batteries, oil-based paints and aerosols

The waste collected in Zero Waste™ Boxes is sorted according to material type.

• Plastics are separated by type, melted and transformed into granules that can be used to manufacture new products.
• Metals are also separated by type and melted into ingots for reuse.
• Textiles are separated according to their composition. Natural fibers are converted into a material used for insulation, while synthetic fibers are transformed into a densified or granulated material mix used in carpet backing.