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Please- NO More Receipts!

Apr-27-2010 By Barbara
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This post is in helpful response, to a request from Software Advice, a website that reviews retail point of sale software.  They want to get rid of paper receipts. It is a peeve of mine, and I agree with the idea enthusiastically.  So, they’ve asked members of the green community to weigh in by taking a short poll. You can take the short poll here:

Software Advice thinks paper receipts represent a wasteful vestige of the last millennium. There is no reason – legal or otherwise – why consumers or retailers, need paper receipts. Electronic receipts are completely valid and they are far more efficient.

Moreover, the production of paper receipts, does some real damage to our environment. For example, 9,600,000 million trees are cut down each year just to produce paper receipts. Additionally, roughly 2,278 lbs of trash is produced during the production of a single ton of receipt paper. This means 1,457,920,000 lbs of trash are being fed into our landfill just to make receipts (according to AllEtronic).

So, what will it take to end paper receipts? Strong incentives, primarily monetary incentives. We need to motivate consumers and retailers, to push toward the vision of paperless retail purchases. To see a list of motivations, and continue reading their article, please visit: Please Kill the Paper Receipt If you didn’t take the poll, at the link at the top of this post, be sure to take it at the above linked article.  This poll is very important, as is your participation in it, because thermal receipt paper cannot be recycled!

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15 COMMENTS
  1. Kay | Folded Postcards Said,

    Small things like paper receipts are really big for environment, because when you put them all together all the roll of paper receipts it will cost thousand of trees. I am very glad that there is a campaign for this to save the trees.

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  3. Wilber Armada Said,

    I always enjoy reading intelligent articles by an individual who is definately up to snuff on their chosen subject. I’ll be watching this thread with great interest. Keep up the good work, see you next time

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  5. Lyrics Said,

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  6. MarkSpizer Said,

    great post as usual!

  7. tiffany jewellery Said,

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  8. C5 Said,

    Something sparked, actually, when I read this, which prompted me to make a post. :)

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  9. Charles Said,

    Thank you for raising this issue. Please could you consider posting something about an equally significant service which seeks to challenge the established and environmentally abhorrent yellow pages print industry which is responsible for the destruction of 19 million trees every year in the USA alone.

    The service is called http://www.nuyello.com and is aimed at bringing sustainable, meaningful online advertising to the business world by making the environment everybody’s business.

    Please visit the website http://www.nuyello.com, join the affiliate program and become an agent of change with this groundbreaking new service.

  10. Barbara Rae Said,

    @ Kay/Folded Postcards,

    Thanks for your comment. I very much agree with you about NO more receipts and saving trees! :)

  11. Barbara Rae Said,

    @ Wilber Armada,

    Thank-You for your kind words of support. Hope to see you back here again! :)

  12. Barbara Rae Said,

    @ Lyrics,

    Thanks for taking time out, to stop here and comment! :)

  13. Barbara Rae Said,

    @ Mark Spizer,

    Thanks. I’m glad you enjoyed the post! :)

  14. Barbara Rae Said,

    @ C5,

    Thanks for the link love! You are right, many trees are used to make these receipts, which often times are repeated electronically.
    At least, that way we have the option to print them if needed for proof of purchase. :)

  15. Barbara Rae Said,

    @ Charles,

    I have added your request to my schedule. It is very worthy of coverage. Please check back in about a week.
    I’ll look forward to further comment from you at that time. :)

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