American Express has partnered with Parley and will offer the ‘first ever’ card made from primarily reclaimed plastic. This reclaimed plastic card will be available to consumer and business green card holders and looks like it’s part of the bigger rumored green refresh. In addition American Express will begin offering a card recycling program in 2020 where can members can send in expired and non working cards to ensure they get recycled properly. The last part of this announcement is that today through September 23rd consumers can go to @AmericanExpress or @parley.tv on instagram and explain explain why they #BackOurOceans or tag friends, for each comment they will remove 2 lbs of plastic from the beaches and coasts up to 1 million lbs.
I’m not sure exactly how American Express is claiming that this is the first ever card made from reclaimed plastic, as I’ve definitely seen other companies do this before. It seems a bit unusual to make this out to be such a dramatic and useful change and then to only do it on one card, rather than the full line up. I’m also not sure how useful the recycling program is given that it would involve shipping the card back to American Express. I guess it’s good to see card issuers doing something, but reducing things like unwanted mailers might be a better direction than this sort of thing.
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Any word on this?
Not if you’ve seen this before but they have a teaser for the card update now https://www.americanexpress.com/us/campaigns/green-from-amex/
Yeah they put that up when they announced Parley
Nice, I’ll throw out my current plastic green card so I can be environmentally conscious with a recycled green one
Haha good one
You’ll have to get rid of your current card eventually, right? It has an expiration date on it, does it not?
So the card is gonna even bonus points on mass transit, thrift stores, vegan restaurants, farmers markets, and paper straws?
Make it bamboo straws and it’s a keeper.
One day plastic cards will be the new metal
I don’t think we should expect 4x gas on this card given it’s positive eco-message.
*Amex suddenly reevaluates plans*
Companies need to stop bs programs to appeal to SJWs the pollution involved moving them back and forth likely cancels out any benefits for recycling such a small piece of plastic, in addition the “recycling” process takes huge amounts of energy from a to b
I see you have watched Penn and Teller’s show Bullsh!t too huh?
very cool that this is what you choose to be upset about online! congratulations!
You had me at “SJW” part 🤣
But tbh, best thing we can do is lower our consumption & consumerism
Recycled Green Cards? Is USCIS aware of this initiative?
Advertising and corporate branding like this helps move social lemming behavior. I appreciate or am hopeful for small ripple effects this may have on less conscious “follower” members of our race. And, it looks pretty. That has more effect than we often realize. Think of the rose gold iPhones.
…at first I read “partners with Parsley”
I have no idea what to make of this comment of yours. You seemingly insinuate that you are superior most of the human race… and then immediately talk about how pretty it looks and admit that you have horrible reading comprehension, lol.
Such a strange comment. But if being strange was the intent of your comment, you have definitely succeeded. Well done.
Is there any way to get a plastic card to replace my metal Business Gold card?
Yes. Ask AmEx to send one.
Do you know if it’s possible to get a plastic AMEX Platinum? I tried last time I called, but the rep said they’re not available.
Have you actually received a plastic Business Gold card (or know of someone who has)? When I chatted with Amex they told me it isn’t possible.
Is that so you can shred it afterward, or so that it doesn’t jam in automated card readers?
Mainly I just don’t like the heavier card in my wallet/pocket. And the occasional card reader where a metal card doesn’t work.
I don’t see any real benefit to the metal card, only downsides. Maybe metal is more durable, but I’ve never had a card get too worn out that it needs to be replaced.
The main benefit is to keep the plebs in their place. Excuse me…metal card here!
yea the metal cards are too much of a gimmick, nice way to cut your wallet or your phone screen too.
When I recently cancelled mine, I couldn’t cut it with a scissors! Had to go find some tin snips.