This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Plain paper receipts printed with ink are largely a thing of the past, ...

The average CVS receipt is 2.5 feet long, according to research from the environmental nonprofit Green America — and many stretch more than 5 or 6 feet. Most end up in the trash. In 2017 Green America ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Most receipts have been found to contain BPA, a toxic chemical (iStock) If you’re wondering what to do with those three-foot-long ...

Most paper receipts are not recyclable. This is because they're printed on thermal paper, which contains a chemical called bisphenol-A (or sometimes bisphenol S) that cannot be easily removed from the ...

The Inhabitat team is about to do something we’d never thought we’d do. We’re going to advise you to stop recycling something that is fully recyclable: thermal cash register receipts. It turns out ...

Bisphenol A (BPA) -- a substance that may have harmful health effects -- occurs in 94 percent of thermal cash register receipts, scientists are reporting. The recycling of those receipts, they add, is ...

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If you’re wondering what to do with those three-foot-long receipts from CVS, the answer might not be to recycle them. That’s because most receipts these days – especially the endless scrolls printed ...