WHAT MOTIVATES US
‘The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.’
Robert Swan
Paper receipts account for 640,000 tons of the paper that is made every year. It takes almost 10 million trees to create this paper, and it is all for something that most of us don’t want. We know as soon as the cashier hands it to us that we will just ball it up and throw it away.
Thermal printing is actually a pretty nifty technology. It uses heat instead of ink to produce an image. So that means there’s no need for conventional printers which require ink refills and higher maintenance.
It does however, require the paper it’s printing onto to be coated in harmful chemicals for the life of the paper. The main chemical in question is BPA or Bisphenol-A.
Kat Robinson
WHAT PEOPLE SAY
The video below presents hard facts on paper waste production and paper usage:
What I would find most useful in solving this matter would be the creation of a platform that could prevent me from having to keep all my receipts- this would have a significant impact on my life.
— Marta, 50 —
. I would love to get rid of paper receipts, nowadays they are already an outdated concept.
— Ines, 23 —