Bringing together
the cash cycle for a
greener future
About Cash Sustainability
This website is a reference site for sustainability activity relating to cash. It aims to be a resource that captures and consolidates initiatives, work and research from every part of the cash cycle so that we can all learn from each other, and to provide tools to support organisations on their pathway to a greener future.
Since 2021 Reconnaissance International has run two dedicated Cash Sustainability Forums, produced ‘Cash: a Roadmap to Sustainability’, written white papers on the ‘Repurposing of Unfit Banknotes’ and ‘Cash Cycle Recirculation and Local Recycling: from Policy to Practice’, run a number of sustainability webinars, hosted sustainability sessions as part of the programme of our HSP conferences, and presented on sustainability at other events, including the ATMIA conference.
We have also worked with industry bodies including IACA, ATMIA, ICA, MDA and Cash Essentials on sustainability and have written extensively about sustainability in both Currency News™ and Cash & Payment News™
Most of this work is available here, alongside links to central banks and industry organisations who publish on sustainability.
We welcome articles, information, input, comment and suggestions from everybody about sustainability in order to help develop this site as a cash community asset.
We welcome articles, information, input, comment and suggestions from everybody about sustainability in order to help develop this site as a cash community asset. Please contact us to discuss how you can contribute.
The Cash Sustainability Forum is the only event that brings together all the stakeholder in the cash cycle, and beyond, to work towards sustainability in the production, circulation and destruction of one of the world’s most enduring and widely used products.
It shares best practice, promotes cooperation and addresses specific environmental challenges and solutions in the cash and payments arena.
The event is designed for anybody involved in or responsible for what their organisation does around sustainability and is intended as a forum where people working on sustainability can learn, exchange views and explore. Thore organisations range from central bank/treasury banknote and coin issue departments to cash manufacturers, cash cycle stakeholders, and environmental solution providers.
The inaugural event was held in 2022 in Edinburgh and the second in 2024 in Frankfurt. Going forward, the Cash Sustainability Forum will alternate between regional (and region-specific) conferences and workshops, interspersed with global events every third year to ensure that the momentum towards a greener future for cash is maintained and developed.
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Cash Sustainability Forum Goes Regional
The Cash Sustainability Forum (CSF) is the only event that brings together all the stakeholders in the cash cycle to work towards sustainability in the production, circulation and destruction of...
New White Paper Offers Options to Manage the Cash Cycle Better
A new white paper investigates how cash management is changing and best practice for optimising efficiency, thereby reducing the cost and environmental impact of cash. Written by John Winchcombe of...
UK Cash Industry Environmental ‘Wins’
Members of the UK’s Cash Industry Environmental Charter (CIEC) Group have shared best practice and worked together since 2021 with the aim of reducing the carbon footprint of notes and...
Plans for New Comparative LCA for Banknotes
Biobanknote – the Colombian developer of solutions for composting banknotes and banknote waste – is planning to carry out a Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) to evaluate the manufacturing and use...
Driving Sustainability Through Procurement
Mark Wind of the Dutch National Bank (DNB) reported on the sustainability work of the Joint European Tender (JET) group at the Intergraf Currency+Identity conference. This is a tangible banknote...
Canadians Explores Technology to Turn E-Waste into Coins
The Royal Canadian Mint (RCM) has announced a new partnership with enim Technologies, which extracts precious metals from e-waste, to explore the possibility of incorporating these metals into the Mint’s...
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ESG Game
This game was invented by Reconnaissance International as part of its work to help the cash industry reduce its end to end environmental impact. The aim is to introduce players to language and terms associated with sustainability and to the impact of a range of environmental actions that organisations choose to take so that you can consider what your organisation is doing.
