Large companies should be accountable!Smart software integrated into retailer and customer profiles is the only solution
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Waste from transactions and the byproducts of society
Continuing to see paper waste on the ground …. People need to wake up! Paper and plastic aren’t viable options for receipt data , Payperless Data Solutions are the only alternative to low cost, high data yield, sustainable solutions for the byproducts of transactions
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More waste !!!
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What is the environmental impact of paper receipts and how does this contribute to increasing ocean acidification?
Where do receipts generally go after their single use? Yes, you guessed it, typically thrown onto the floor and blown into the street. When exposed to environmental factors like rain and sunshine, these receipts break down faster and these chemical by products like BPA and BPS flow into our water networks and into the ocean. This can add to increased levels of ocean acidification, and moreover speeding up the process of climate change.
I was shocked when I was walking into my local grocery store and noticed all the paper receipts carelessly cast into the street by people leaving the grocery store. This sparked my idea! and I realized that this could be far more detrimental than this looks to the eco-system and the environment. We often think of large plastics and other large forms of waste going into our water networks but how often do we think about chemica…
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Lily Jones-Harvey
Jul 22, 2025
We counted 12 on our way into the store yesterday , imagine how many we couldn’t see . It’s such a hassle to have a recipet - i always end up loosing it when I need it most !
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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.