I think that this is one reason you see some cashiers wearing gloves - it's been known for quite some time, but I guess not well-known.

I guess this just means another possibility of dying over time. It drives me crazy all the things that bring up fear mongering. It's like we are supposed to live forever. Nope we are not. Remember the cell phone causes cancer junk? Well I really think mice are very weak and can't handle a thing.

...at the conclusion of a transaction.

I usually say "no" unless I used a card for the purchase (I like to have a "record" for electronic transactions). I assume they're giving me an option due to the toxic material, but I must confess I feel sympathy for the person on the other side of the cash register who has to handle every receipt, regardless if the customer wants one.

I can refuse a receipt to avoid exposing myself to toxins, but the clerk has to handle each one if merely to tear it from the register to throw away.

Compared to regular paper receipt paper. So thats probably the main reason they ask if you want it or not. Even Old Navy asks now if u want the receipt.
But the cashiers SHOULD be made aware that it is carcinogenic.

And because we're tired of sweeping them up after people drop them in the parking lot.

I like that, especially when buying devices, since I don't have to keep track of paper receipts and can file the emails with the other information about the device in a folder on my computer. Often before I buy anything I have researched it, downloaded the manual to study and have all that info in a folder waiting for me to buy it. So the receipt can be stored with all of that with never being printed.

It winds up in recycled paper products including tissues.

I always put it in recycling. I thought I was doing good. Thank you for letting me and others who innocently thought they were recycled. No more for me. I never put tissue in recycling. Lol.

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If we didn't, the people responsible for this might have to pay for the damage they caused.

Nothing else is more pertinent than yer point, to which I'd add:

It's the corporate right to do this because, freedom (with a wee bit o' help from helpful laws).

Q: What is the difference between a corporation and an asteroid?
A: A corporation was created by humans.

companies will do to protect their workers. Hmmm I may just not take the receipt until something is done about this, in what...20 years or more? It is good to know and thanks for posting ErikJ.

I suspect nothing

and I found a link to migraine. Environmental estrogens are everywhere, and none of them are good for you. And don't think that BPA free gets rid of the problem. The BPA substitute is also a xenoestrogen.

A 2009 study on Chinese workers in BPA factories found that workers were four times more likely to report erectile dysfunction, reduced sexual desire and overall dissatisfaction with their sex life than workers with no heightened BPA exposure.[143] BPA workers were also seven times more likely to have ejaculation difficulties. They were also more likely to report reduced sexual function within one year of beginning employment at the factory, and the higher the exposure, the more likely they were to have sexual difficulties.[144] A 2010 study found that fetuses and young children exposed to BPA were at risk for secondary sexual developmental changes, brain and behavior changes and immune disorders.[145]

Wikipedia

Because not too long ago I got a note from my state's tax collection office, claiming that my esposo and I owed them north of fifteen grand for 2009 and 2012.

A large box of receipts was required to straighten out their delusion.

Then there's the ones who try and convince you to pay them twice for something, and the ones who try to refund you less than you paid for the item.

If it's not on paper, it never happened.

wearily,
Bright

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_paper

Health and environmental concerns[edit]

Some thermal papers are coated with BPA, a chemical considered to be an endocrine disruptor.[4][5] This material can contaminate recycled paper.[6][7] BPA can transfer readily to the skin in small amounts:


When taking hold of a receipt consisting of thermal printing paper for five seconds, roughly 1 ?g BPA (0.2–0.6 ?g) was transferred to the forefinger and the middle finger if the skin was rather dry, and about ten times more than this if these fingers were wet or very greasy. Exposure to a person who repeatedly touches thermal printer paper for about ten hours per day, such as at a cash register, could reach 71 micrograms per day, which is 42 times less than the present tolerable daily intake (TDI).[8]

The chemical bisphenol A (BPA) is used for thermal paper coatings because of its stability and heat-resistance. This allows inkless printing for receipts from cash registers. People who often get in contact with BPA coated receipts do have a higher level of BPA in their bodies than people with average contact. Therefore, the New York Suffolk County signed a resolution to ban BPA in thermal receipt papers. Violation of this new law, the "Safer Sales Slip Act", involves a 500 USD penalty. One year after having been filed in the Office of the State Secretary, the new law will come into force."BPA Cash Register Roll Ban Enforced In Suffolk County". Retrieved 6 December 2015.

Recently, bisphenol S (BPS), an analog of BPA that has been shown to have similar in vitro estrogenic activity to BPA,[9][10] has been used in thermal paper coatings. The recycling of thermal paper coated with BPS can introduce BPS into the cycle of paper production and cause BPS contamination of other types of paper products.[7]

the Purel dispensers at the entrance and exit doors of our new Giant Eagle.

Frankly, I don't buy into most of this. In refusing a receipt, I tell the cashiers I trust them, and in the unlikely event I should ever have to return an item, well, they aleady have a record, don't they?*

I only wish there were a way of telling them before checkout not to spit any paper out to begin with!



* I don't much use cash.

My pet peeve is them having to hand you the receipt as I'm frantically trying to put my cash or credit card back in my wallet. Wish they would just put the damn thing in the bag.

I'm a bit disabled, and have enough difficulty handling change, much less the extra paper that I'll never use, and which could have been put to better use by a dead tree.

Don't even get me started on coupons!

non-toxic paper and ink a year ago.