Comments on: Plastic Gift Cards: Re-use, Recycle, Speak Out!

By: Alexis

Alexis — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:37:11 +0000

Hayley – that is what I felt when I was your age. Keep going girl!

You can send them to me! I actually upcycle them into great jewelry! Please jump on over to my online shop – http://www.JumpingDog.artfire.com to see some of my work. You can also see my latest creations (I’m ramping up for a big artshow soon) at http://www.facebook.com/JumpingDog . All of my cards are used, even if I covet one on the shelf, I just wait until someone gives me a used one. The parts that I don’t use, I take to my closest Starbucks & they dump it all into the box that they are sending to be recycled.

Earthworks is a great recycling company as stated in the attached article. I have sent them there before. But, now that I have teamed up with this Starbucks, I don’t have to spend $$ on shipping. They send theirs to a recycling company in Michigan. This is good news to my ears, because this means there are more recyclers in the USA! Yay!

By: Taylor

Taylor — Wed, 11 May 2011 14:49:43 +0000

Best Buy now has bins at the entrance to the store for recycling gift cards, CDs, plastic bags, computer cords, and ink cartridges.

By: Penina

Penina — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:04:27 +0000

Hi there,
Any further news on other stores beginning recycling programs?

I was getting ready to mail of another envelope full of used cards to Earthworks, and happened on this post.

Thanks!
.-= Penina´s last blog ..Cody [Flickr] =-.

By: Credit Card Chaser

Credit Card Chaser — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:59:01 +0000

I honestly never even thought of that and I have stacks of old cards just sitting in my dresser junk drawer. .-= Credit Card Chaser´s last blog ..Credit Cards & Bankruptcy: A Visual Tragedy =-.

By: Tessa

Tessa — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:30:57 +0000

Shredded paper is good for the compost heap and avoids it going to landfill

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:20:00 +0000

Just an update that I’m excited to share; I’m putting together information about recycling our gift cards through Earthworks for the higher-ups to review and consider for the store I work at, and possibly other stores in the area!

–E

By: Leighann

Leighann — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:44:00 +0000

At Walgreen’s you can choose to have your rebates put onto the same gift card again and again. The rebates are paperless and don’t require mailing if you do it online. And they even give you 10% more if you do it that way.

And I’m holding on to two corn-based Target gift cards that I received so that I can reload them if/when I get a store credit.

By: agreenfire

agreenfire — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:42:00 +0000

Thanks for the great post. I have several plastic cards lying around and now I know where to send them.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:33:00 +0000

I wanted to suggest Card Avenue to gift card buyers and receivers. cardavenue.com works very much like EBay. When people get a gift card they know they won’t use, they post it on Card Avenue and sell it for a little less than the value of the card. You can get cards at a discount and decrease the demand on gift cards in general since the stores don’t record these sales. If you’re going to recycle gift cards you receive as gifts, you can ask that they be purchased from sites like this, so you know you’ve just saved some already purchased gift cards from the trash.

By: Carmen

Carmen — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:17:00 +0000

Thanks for the helpful post. A good alternative to plastic gift cards is e-Gift Cards. You can get those for movie tickets, spa treatments, amazon.com, almost anything. Then there is no plastic waste…