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| Every year, an estimated 250 billion receipts are offered US customers. Most are automatically printed, then declined with a polite "No Thank you." Concerns have been raised about BPA in thermal paper and some municipalities do not permit it in recycling streams. What can be done to reduce this annoyance and the waste stream? In some cases, simply changing the store policy to print upon demand will reduce receipt printing by an estimate factor of 30. | Every year, an estimated 250 billion paper receipts are offered US customers. Many are automatically printed, declined by customers, and collected for disposal. Concerns have been raised about BPA in thermal paper and some municipalities do not permit thermal paper in recycling streams. What can be done to reduce this annoyance and the waste stream? In some cases, simply changing the store policy to print upon demand will reduce receipt printing by an estimated factor of 30 in campus coffee shops and markets. |
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Bisphenol A (BPA) in thermal paper http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/sya-bpa/ Thermal printing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_printing Retail sales data http://www.economagic.com/cenret.htm#USRet_SA "Bisphenol A Alternatives in Thermal Paper" http://www.epa.gov/dfe/pubs/projects/bpa/aa-for-bpa-full-version.pdf from BPA Alternatives in Thermal Paper Partnership http://www.epa.gov/dfe/pubs/projects/bpa/milestones.htm BPA free thermal paper (Appvion, Appleton WI) http://www.appvion.com/en-us/products/thermal/Pages/default.aspx, http://www.appvion.com/en-us/products/thermal/Documents/Therm_BPA_Free_Statement.pdf |
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| Bisphenol A (BPA) in thermal paper http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/sya-bpa/ | Andrea Perkins, REthink.org Bret Shaw, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Life Sciences Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 608-890-1878, brshaw@wisc.edu, http://lsc.wisc.edu/index.php/faculty-staff/faculty/bret-shaw |
Receipts
Every year, an estimated 250 billion paper receipts are offered US customers. Many are automatically printed, declined by customers, and collected for disposal. Concerns have been raised about BPA in thermal paper and some municipalities do not permit thermal paper in recycling streams. What can be done to reduce this annoyance and the waste stream? In some cases, simply changing the store policy to print upon demand will reduce receipt printing by an estimated factor of 30 in campus coffee shops and markets.
Resources
IRS on record keeping http://www.irs.gov/publications/p552/ar02.html
Bisphenol A (BPA) in thermal paper http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/sya-bpa/
Thermal printing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_printing
Retail sales data http://www.economagic.com/cenret.htm#USRet_SA
"Bisphenol A Alternatives in Thermal Paper" http://www.epa.gov/dfe/pubs/projects/bpa/aa-for-bpa-full-version.pdf from BPA Alternatives in Thermal Paper Partnership http://www.epa.gov/dfe/pubs/projects/bpa/milestones.htm
BPA free thermal paper (Appvion, Appleton WI) http://www.appvion.com/en-us/products/thermal/Pages/default.aspx, http://www.appvion.com/en-us/products/thermal/Documents/Therm_BPA_Free_Statement.pdf
Participants
Carlsmith
Rachel Feil, LEED AP BD+C, Communications Coordinator - Office of Sustainability, Writing Editor - The Wisconsin Engineer Magazine, Civil Engineering & Environmental Studies Undergraduate, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Andrea Perkins, REthink.org
Bret Shaw, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Life Sciences Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 608-890-1878, brshaw@wisc.edu, http://lsc.wisc.edu/index.php/faculty-staff/faculty/bret-shaw