Some companies (Apple, Best Buy, Trader Joe’s, Costco, Whole Foods Market) offer phenol-free receipts, but are definitely in the minority. Putting an End to Dangerous BPA/BPS Exposureīelieve it or not, phenols like BPA (currently banned in infant/toddler products) are still used in the printing process of receipts.Īs noted above, most thermal cash register receipts are printed with a heated combination of BPA and/or BPS, which are known hormone disruptors linked to a number of health issues. We don’t have to let mountain of receipts become a forgotten environmental problem.ģ. So, what do we do? Just as the campaign against single-use plastics caused people to reconsider their consumption, it may be up to us, as consumers, to let companies know that it’s time to make a change. We often think we’re doing the right thing when reusing or recycling paper, but the chemicals in thermal register receipts actually render paper receipts non-recyclable further, they introduce phenol into the rest of the stream, and the chemicals end up contaminating food and water sources. Going Green: Paper Receipts Are Not Recyclable Some retailers have started offering options around your proof of purchase, like having your receipt emailed to you, or declining a receipt altogether, but there are many laggards in this area.įorward-thinking organizations should start planning to address this trend, or else lawmakers might act for them – while the initial proposal banning receipts in California failed, you can expect that it’ll be picked up again.Īdditionally, organizations that have shortened paper receipts have seen massive business gains – imagine what ending paper receipts could do for the bottom line.Ģ. In large organizations, permissioned access to receipts can actually provide a better safeguard than locking them in a room or file cabinet somewhere. Paperless systems like emails and databases can make sorting receipts simple and reliable. At work, inputting piles of receipts into an expense report is time consuming. In our personal lives, we might tuck a receipt away, then forget where we put it. Whether at home or at work, sorting through paper receipts can be time-consuming and unproductive.
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