Based on external studies and testing from an independent lab, the center found that touching a thermal receipt for just 10 ...

Many retailers face legal action for BPS presence in receipts. This chemical, found in shopping slips, poses health risks. It ...

You probably handle receipts every day. Most of them probably end up in the trash can, but the chemicals found in their paper could stay with you longer. Along with our sister stations in Cox ...

Turning trash into art is something we undoubtedly all admire. [Davis DeWitt] did just that with a massive mural made entirely from discarded receipt paper. [Davis] got lucky while doing some light… ...

Paper receipts from major US retailers are so high in Bisphenol S (BPS) that holding one for 10 seconds might cause the skin to absorb enough of the extremely harmful chemical to breach California 's ...

Some retailers removed BPA-coated receipt paper, but replaced it with nearly identical bisphenol substances, like BPS Some of Canada’s biggest retailers started testing alternatives to receipt ...

Some states are looking to ban the use of bisphenols in receipt paper, like Connecticut did back in 2011. Washington state’s ban is set to go into effect in 2025.

Printing over 1,000 feet of paper wasn’t without its issues, so [Davis] designed a custom spool system to undo the curling of the receipts.

Store receipts may seem like benign little pieces of paper, but they add up to a shocking amount of waste. In the United States alone, annual receipt production consumes three million trees and ...