The Environmental Cost of Paper Business Cards
6/5/20269 min read· Cardixn Editorial
Every year, 10 billion paper cards are printed. Almost 9 billion end up in landfill within seven days. This is the real number.
The numbers
10 billion cards. 100,000 trees. 900 million litres of water. 100 tons of ink solvent. 88% thrown away within a week. Business cards are the single most-wasted printed object per gram of use on Earth.
The ESG angle
For any company reporting on ESG or Scope 3 emissions, business cards are low-hanging fruit. Switching a 200-person company from paper to digital removes about 240 kg of CO2 equivalent per year — a rounding error in isolation, but a story your ESG report can tell in one line, backed by real data from the Cardixn dashboard.
The Cardixn commitment
Every Cardixn card is served from a green-energy-powered edge network. NFC cards, when ordered, are shipped in FSC-certified paper packaging. We do not ship plastic pouches, foam inserts, or promotional junk.
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