Violins and Starships

Wasting Paper

May 27th, 2008

Have you ever noticed how ridiculously long some stores’ receipts are? Yesterday we went to Lowes and bought four items. The receipt for those four items was twenty-four inches long! That’s not including a rebate form which was nearly as long. That is absolutely ridiculous. By comparison, a Wal-mart receipt with exactly fifty items on it was only eleven inches long. You know, for the most part I’ve come to terms with my status as an Internet nobody but sometimes I really wish I was famous enough to embarrass a major corporation that needs to be embarrassed.

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2 Responses to “Wasting Paper”

  1. Joe
    May 27th, 2008 - 1:55 pm

    Not that waste is insignificant, but have you ever wondered what’s in that paper you’re handling?

    http://www.bwz.com/BWZ/9512/product.htm

    I really wish I hadn’t read Jim Hightower’s book on this (and many other things).

  2. Lynn
    May 27th, 2008 - 2:49 pm

    Actually, yes I have. The paper Lowes uses for their receipts is a bit unusual – very smooth, almost slick but not quite glossy.

    I generally don’t spend a lot of time worrying about the traces of toxins in just about everything we use – bleach in paper, mercury in light bulbs and so on. Maybe I should but denial has always worked so well for me. :-)

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