Card Recycling

12 Nov 2025

Promote the circular economy

Don't know what to do with your expired, cancelled or obsolete cards?

It's simple: hand them in for recycling at a CGD branch office, where they will be transformed into furniture for the Community.

The Environmental Management System, a project within the scope of CGD's Sustainability Program, aims to reduce the environmental impacts of the Bank's activity, by implementing a number of initiatives in relevant areas: energy, water, CO2 emissions, waste, and consumption of materials, among others.

By being aware of the efficient waste management’s importance, CGD has developed a system for recycling expired or unused cards as an opportunity for improvement.

Through this initiative, bank cards (expired or at the end of their useful life) and otherwise (for example, plastic loyalty cards) can be reused by recycling the plastic.

We are counting on your support!

CGD is committed to developing innovative approaches which maximise the recovery of its waste, transforming it into equipment that positively impacts the Community and the Environment.

The PVC waste resulting from the shredding of these cards is incorporated into the production of urban furniture made from 100% recycled plastic.

This project is being carried out in collaboration with Extruplás, the company responsible for gathering and recycling the cards, as well as producing the urban furniture which CGD provides to Social Solidarity institutions, subject to identification by ENTRAJUDA.

Hand your out-of-date cards in at any CGD branch. We can guarantee the confidentiality of your card details and help protect the environment by recycling plastic. Together, with small actions, we can all contribute to a better future.

Together, and with small gestures, we can make a better Future. We are counting on you!

From 2015 to 2024, thanks to its contribution, this project has already enabled the collection of around 6.1million cards, corresponding to 30.8 tons.This initiative materizalised in the donation of 37 articles of urban furniture, supporting twenty-two social welfare institutions.

Keep on being a part of this project, and hand in your cards for recycling at a CGD branch.

Beneficiary Institutions:

Centro Social Paroquial de São João das Lampas (Sintra);
Confraria S. Vicente de Paulo (Lisboa);
Centro Social de Palmela;
Centro Social da Trafaria (Almada);
Acreditar - Associação de Pais e Amigos de Crianças com Cancro (Coimbra);
Centro Social Paroquial Padre Ricardo Gameiro (Almada);
Porta Mágica - Associação de Solidariedade Social (Évora);
Associação Comunitária Nossa Senhora dos Prazeres (Ponte de Sor - Portalegre);
Associação Comunitária Recreativa e Cultural Valdoarquense (Ponte de Sor - Portalegre);
Associação de Amigos da Criança e da Família "Chão dos Meninos" (Évora);
Centro de Educação para o Cidadão Deficiente, CRL (Mira Sintra);
ACM - Associação Cristã da Mocidade de Setúbal;
Associação Qe - uma Nova Linguagem para a Incapacidade (Sintra);
Centro Paroquial de Bem-Estar Social de Arrentela (Seixal);
Santa Casa da Misericórdia do Barreiro;
CERCISA – Cooperativa para a Educação e Reabilitação de Cidadãos Inadaptados do Seixal e Almada;
APPACDM de Évora;
Centro Educativo de Solidariedade Social EZN da Fonte Boa (Santarém);
Centro de Educação Especial do Concelho de Rio Maior – "O Ninho";
Congregação das Irmãs Concepcionistas ao Serviço dos Pobres (Elvas);
Escola Básica Vila Boim (Elvas);
APPACDM Elvas.
AD GENTES – Associação Leigos Missionários da Consolata projeto “Zambujal 360”.

Thank you for supporting those in need.

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Card Recycling

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