Join us in stopping the damage paper receipts cause
In the UK over 11.2 billion receipts are printed every year & most of them are impossible to recycle as they contain Bisphenol A/S a toxic chemical! Don't you think it's time for change?
Over half of paper receipts in the Europe contain bisphenol A/S. A toxic chemical that's been linked to fertility issues. It's been banned from plastic bottles and containers but the receipt has gone under the radar.
In the UK around 11.2 billion receipts are printed each year, that's equivalent to 200,000 trees. If we left the tree’s used for paper receipts, they’d remove 4,300 tonnes of Co2 a year!
Co2
1 paper receipt emits 2.5g of Co2
The production of paper receipt’s in the UK emits 28,000 tonnes of Co2e into our atmosphere every year. That’s the same as 5,600 flights from London to Sydney!
Water
Yes, billions of litres
Around 1.6 billion litres of water is used to produce the thermal paper we use. This could supply over 1 million people with drinking water a year!
Waste
Build a Eiffel Tower from receipts
90% of receipts are lost, damaged or thrown away and these can't be reycled because of the BPA. This leads to 10,000 tonnes (the same weight as the Eiffel Tower) of paper reciept waste in our lanfills.
