Ordered a bagel today and got printed out an order number receipt . 🧾 stood with it for 10 minutes , got my food then found it a rubbish bin to live in . There must be a more efficient way ! What a waste ,with such short use.
Why print them at all! Such a waste of both the consumer and retailers time. Payperless is clearly the obvious software solution here, @Lily Jones-Harvey
According to a study named “Skip the Slip” from 2020, led by GreenAmerica, every year in the US, receipt use consumes over 3 million trees and nearly 9 billion gallons of water (34 billion litres). Production and disposal of receipt paper generates unnecessary waste and emits the carbon equivalent of over 400,000 cars on the road.
According to the BeatTheReceipt campaign, around 200,000 trees are destroyed to supply the UK with paper receipts each year and 1.6 billion litres of water are needed to produce the thermal paper on which they are printed (which is enough drinking water for almost 1.5 million people for an entire year).
And finally, over 90% of receipts are lost, damaged or thrown away by consumers, creating more than 10,000 tons of paper waste.
According to insideretail.com, if Australian retailers all stopped printing receipts for a year, the nation could save approximately 1.5 million trees, 249 billions litres of water, and 4.5 billion litres of oil.
Why print them at all! Such a waste of both the consumer and retailers time. Payperless is clearly the obvious software solution here, @Lily Jones-Harvey
According to a study named “Skip the Slip” from 2020, led by GreenAmerica, every year in the US, receipt use consumes over 3 million trees and nearly 9 billion gallons of water (34 billion litres). Production and disposal of receipt paper generates unnecessary waste and emits the carbon equivalent of over 400,000 cars on the road.
According to the BeatTheReceipt campaign, around 200,000 trees are destroyed to supply the UK with paper receipts each year and 1.6 billion litres of water are needed to produce the thermal paper on which they are printed (which is enough drinking water for almost 1.5 million people for an entire year).
And finally, over 90% of receipts are lost, damaged or thrown away by consumers, creating more than 10,000 tons of paper waste.
According to insideretail.com, if Australian retailers all stopped printing receipts for a year, the nation could save approximately 1.5 million trees, 249 billions litres of water, and 4.5 billion litres of oil.