Ticket's waste

I volunteer as a projectionist at Lux for a few months now. I missed Kinodvor a lot since I moved to Holland and Lux is somehow filling in for it, although it's completely different. Anyway, I had a shift today and because it was quite calm in the projection department, I went to help collecting the tickets in Cinemarienburg.
The audience was not completely filled although it is a normal busy saturday, but still, at the end I had 54 torn parts of the tickets in my hands. I didn't know what to do with it, so I put it in my pocket.
I'm looking at it now, sitting at home. It looks so small, but if you consider that there is also a 4 times bigger second part of the ticket, which was given back to the visitor, we have quite a pile of paper here.
Paper? Well, if I look closely, it looks pretty plastic, especially the printing side which is meant for thermo printers. I don't think you can recycle this stuff. At least not very easy and with good results. It's full of chemicals.
So, we have quite a pile here. But this was one of 10 audiences (Lux and Cinemarienburg), and each of these has several screenings or shows per day. I assume that most people don't collect their cinema tickets and keep them saved, although some people do. I remember someone who was walking around with all the tickets of films he saw in the last 2 or 3 years. And he was quite a regular visitor the the cinema, so his wallet was very thick, not because of his money, but because of all those tickets he was carrying in it.
If I return to my topic, I want to say this: cinemas produce a lot of waste with the tickets. All those big tickets are printed on non recycled and non-recyclable paper and they are used only for a few minutes, from the moment the ticket is payed till the moment the visitors sit down on a sit which is on their tickets, or they sit somewhere else.
Maybe it's not the cinemas but the companies who provide tickets-printing-systems. They design the system and the cinemas are using it. But there should be some thought given to the ecological aspect of doing this. For example, if somehow recycled material was used for the tickets, or if tickets were half smaller (that is immediately making half of the trash). Further on, there could be a special ticket container at cinema exit - to keep the tickets separately from other trash and then send used tickets back to the producer to destroy or recycle them. There could be a lot done here.