End Paper Receipts

This is an awesome campaign.

I think its a great idea. The only potential downside to electronic receipts is privacy. For example, if you need a receipt to return a certain item you would probably need to provide a cell phone number or an email address. Who wants Best Buy sending their weekly non-specials to your cell phone. Regulation?

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I believe that the paper receipts do cause more CO2 to be put into the air and I also believe that it will save the environment, tree wise, but we also cut down trees for many other things. Paper receipts clearly are a big cost on the environment, but asking everyone to learn about the electronic receipt is very hard. Just with any technology, it is harder to understand for anyone. Other than the fact of everyone having to learn how to work with the electronic receipt; I completely agree with you. My main point for agreeing with you is the fact that we cut down that many trees in our environment and then more than half the people that get receipts throw them away. A possible solution for this is maybe to cut down on the amount made and possible only give a paper receipt out if the customer should ask for one. Just a suggestion!

I agree that we need to get rid of paper reciepts because it harms our environment greatly. I think that there should be an electronic reciept keeper about the size of a cell phone that you just scan and all of your purchases are kept in it. It should also only cost a few dollars so that people have the want to get this and save the environment.

I believe that the paper receipts need to go. All everyone does is throw them away anyways, and with the amount of trees being cut down to make the paper, it is rediculous how people just throw away every receipt. The only thing I feel that would hurt us, is if we got rid of the paper receipt it might become more complicated to return something. Other than that, I think that electronic receipts would benefit the environment tremendously.

I agree. To tell you the truth, i have never thought about removing the receipt from our lives. It makes perfect sense. What do the majority of people do when they get a receipt? They glance at it, then throw it away. Many people don't even glance at it. This is a great idea and I do not think it should be very hard to remove from our life-styles. It all starts with the consumer and as the consumer becomes aware of the negative effects the printing of receipts have, they will gradually begin to demand that they be removed from the practices of the businesses they visit. Great article!http://d6clothing.com/

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Jarred is right that paper, including receipts, is made from speficially grown trees which have short life cycle. However, it doesn't take away the fact that we are spending so much energy into planting, growing, harvesting, processing trees and turning them into a useless piece of paper that we will simply toss away. CO2 created along this process is something that we really don't need.

In the UK the Co-operative supermarket organisation always ask if you need a receipt – so that's progress. Consumers need to be educated too. It will probably take a generation to change this situation.

Paper has been around since the times of the ancient Egyptians, so I don't believe that paper will be entirely eliminated anytime within our lifetime or the next. However, the fact that 9.6 million trees are being used for the purpose of making reciepts that people will most likely throw away at some point truely shocks me. Although the point that special trees are grown quickly, harvested, and then replanted, I do believe that these trees would be best used as they would naturally; by staying in the dirt where they belong. At some point I believe that stores will ultimetally view electronic reciepts as a cost-saving measure and will employ the technique nationwide, but until that time the best thing that we can do is recycle these wasteful scraps of paper.

I definitely think we should banish paper receipts. Nearly everything is already electronic (credit card purchases for $2 candy at the gas station), so why not move receipts that way. I wonder if there's a text messaging software that you can choose to get on your phone to get a text whenever you want a receipt. Anyway, I wish you the best with the Paper Receipt abolition campaign!!

This is very cool. We can save a lot of trees, we really can minimize using paper receipts to save our forests. Just imagine in a Department store how many rolls of paper receipt they utilize it's about time to change for the better "everything is electronic nowadays".

I don't even keep my receipts. I'm glad that ATMs now ask if I want one or not.

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