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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 one of the world’s most enduring and widely used products. Following two successful global events (in Edinburgh and Frankfurt in 2022...

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 Reconnaissance International (co-publishers of Cash & Payment News™) and Paul Blond of The Blond Group, with help from the ATM Industry...

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 coins in the cash cycle.

As part of this work, a key focus is reducing plastic waste because, as an industry,...

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 of banknotes compared with digital transactions, in accordance with the internationally recognised standards ISO 14067 and ISO 14040.

The aim is...

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 specific example of an approach to using procurement to drive change.

The Eurosystem sources banknotes from both in-house government printing works...

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 future coin production.

Enim, based in Montreal, specialises in the ‘revalorization’ of precious metals and critical strategic minerals from obsolete electronic...