The ubiquitous extra-extra-extra-long CVS receipt could become a thing of the past in California under a bill that cleared its first hurdle in the state Legislature on Monday.
Nikki Boxer of Manhattan Beach, holding a receipt from CVS drugstore on Monday, says she would rather receive an electronic receipt by text message or email.
“If we are looking at reducing waste, probably the easiest thing we can do is get rid of the material that someone hands us that we don’t want that we hold onto until we get to the next trash can and then throw away,” said Nick Lapis of Californians Against Waste, a bill supporter. The paper that receipts are printed on is generally too thin to be made from recycled material, according to a legislative analysis of the bill. Once they are thrown away, the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, or CalRecycle, said the use ofThe American Forest and Paper Assn., a paper industry group that opposes the bill, estimates that the United States generates 180,000 tons of paper receipts each year. That, the group points out, is a small percentage of total paper waste.
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