
State Mint – Cooling down production machines
The State Mint Dry coolers state mint In 2021, 5,839.9 million banknotes were printed by the European state mints for a total of 209,273.5 million euros. The production of 6,088.0 million banknotes is expected for 2022, for a total of 305,810.0 million euros. The environmental impact of each cash transaction is 4.6 grams of CO2 and it is mostly due to the production phase of the coins and to the "operational" phase, which includes the operation of ATMs and the transport of coins and banknotes....