(Non-pilot treading warily)
Whilst you are scrabbling in the bin to recover the plastic, so that it doesn't go into landfill ... the 'lets save paper' idea sounds like ANY corporate body - civil service or not.
When the people making decisions, however minor, are divorced from the people that it affects - then this is what you get. At a minor level it's is the inconvenience and probable mishandling of your licence, at the major level it's losing millions of items of personal data or attacking a foreign country to remove weapons of mass destruction. I have seen commercial organisations make penny pinching savings that affected the daily working lives of their employees for years. They all do it.