Receipts
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.
Resources
IRS on record keeping http://www.irs.gov/publications/p552/ar02.html
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
Bisphenol A (BPA) in thermal paper http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/sya-bpa/