Environmental impact of plastic vs metal cards

[jwhiterz (Jack)]

I think this raises an important question.
Do you even need a physical card anymore?

90+% of my spending occurs via Apple Pay. I’d be happy to give up my physical card.

Card details such as card number and expiry could be displayed within the app

I posted a bit about it here:

Ability to copy full card number from the app

When this becomes a thing it would be cool to give the customer an option if they even want to receive a physical card. Apple / Google pay + this would cover a good 90+% of my usage. Less cost on card production/postage + better for the environment.

This post from Hugo is interesting:

Monzo investor card - design concept (By Brice Corbin)

It is so cool to see so many new ideas for Monzo cards! Thanks a lot for taking the time to do it To give a bit of an update, we’ve only recently started to work on what a new design system for what our cards should look like. Things like our future business banking will require new cards so we’re working on something that would allow us to create new “kinds” of cards in a sustainable and consistent way and without breaking any of the things that make our current cards great. …