Sustainability

The most-touched object in your hotel shouldn’t end up in landfill.

A typical hotel hands out thousands of virgin-PVC key cards a year, most destined for the bin. We make the room key something better: cards from FSC® wood, bamboo, recycled plastics and seed paper — every one encoded to work with your existing locks, no reader changes required.

Why it matters

Small object, surprising footprint.

Standard hotel key cards are made from PVC — a virgin plastic that’s slow to break down and rarely recycled in practice. Multiply one card by every check-in, every lost key and every reorder, across a year, and the room key becomes one of the most wasteful single-use items a property hands out.

Guests notice, too. Travelers increasingly choose properties that take sustainability seriously, and the key card is a tangible, in-hand signal of exactly that. Switching it is one of the lowest-effort, highest-visibility sustainability moves a hotel can make — because it changes nothing about how the lock works, and everything about how the key feels.

  • Single-use by defaultMost key cards are used for one stay, then discarded.
  • Rarely recycledEmbedded RFID inlays make standard PVC cards hard to recycle.
  • Highly visibleEvery guest holds it — making it the perfect sustainability statement.
  • Easy to switchEco cards drop into your existing locks with no hardware changes.

Materials compared

Four sustainable materials, one working key.

Each material has its own look, footprint and ideal use. Here’s how wood, bamboo, recycled plastic and seed paper stack up — all encoded to the same spec your lock already reads.

FSC® Wood

Premium, tactile

Real wood veneer over an RFID inlay. Every card looks and feels slightly different — a genuine, premium touch that boutique guests notice and remember.

Look
Warm maple, walnut & birch grain
Footprint
Renewable, responsibly harvested
End of life
Biodegradable core
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Bamboo

Fast-renewing

Bamboo regenerates in years, not decades. Light and durable, it’s the eco material of choice for properties that want a natural look at a friendlier price than wood.

Look
Pale, clean, lightly grained
Footprint
Among the fastest-growing plants
End of life
Biodegradable core
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rPVC & rPET

Familiar, durable

When you want the exact feel and durability of a classic plastic card with a fraction of the footprint, recycled rPVC and rPET divert waste plastic and print beautifully.

Look
Identical to standard plastic
Footprint
Ocean-bound & post-consumer waste
End of life
Recyclable where facilities exist
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Seed Paper

Plantable

For single-stay or event credentials, seed-paper cards can be planted by the guest when they check out. A memorable, zero-landfill end to the guest journey.

Look
Textured, natural, flecked
Footprint
Embedded wildflower seeds
End of life
Plant it — it grows
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Want the full breakdown on cost, durability and carbon? Read our sustainable key card guide.

Our commitment

What “sustainable” means when we say it.

It’s easy to print a leaf on a plastic card. Here’s what we actually do to make sustainability verifiable.

Verified materials

Wood is FSC®-certified. Recycled plastics are genuinely post-consumer or ocean-bound — not virgin plastic with a green label.

Designed to divert waste

Recycled cards keep plastic out of landfill and the ocean; wood, bamboo and seed paper return safely to the earth.

Responsible manufacturing

Production runs through ISO 14001-aligned environmental management and RoHS / REACH chemical-safety standards.

Right-sized orders

Low minimums and a saved spec mean you order what you need — reducing overproduction and waste from forgotten stockpiles.

Standards we hold our materials & production to

  • FSC®Responsible forestry
  • ISO 14001Environmental management
  • ISO 9001Quality management
  • MIFARE®NXP-compatible chips
  • RoHSHazardous-substance free
  • REACHEU chemical safety

Feel the difference, then make the switch.

Free samples of our wood, bamboo and recycled cards — encoded for your lock, so you can prove they work before you commit.