Kill the Paper Receipts
Software Advice.com recently hosted an interactive poll to help lobby and put an “end paper receipts.” Their main goal was to raise awareness about the amount of waste created from paper receipts.
Not only do millions of paper receipts end up in landfills every year (thermal receipts cannot be recycled), the production of receipts does some real damage to the environment as well. An estimated 9 million trees are used just to produce paper receipts alone (not to mention the ink used).
So what’s the solution? Software Advice (SoftwareAdvice.com) proposes that we move towards using electronic receipts. Apple Computers employs this type of technology successfully already. So why can’t others?
Judging by the responses from the sites poll, many consumers would support this transition.
In the poll 226 people participated with 202 of the voters – or 89% – said they support getting rid of paper receipts. To see the rest of the results and to read more of the original post and arguments then we recomend that you visit SoftwareAdvice.com to read the article “Please Kill the Paper Receipt“
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Whilst I don’t think 226 people for a survey is particulatly representative, I *do* think this is a very interesting idea.
I am sick of pocket-fulls of receipts that waste paper and also waste my time either recycling them or filing them so I would certainly be in favor of electronic receipts.