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Recycling Old Receipts Is Contaminating Green Paper ProductsThe Inhabitat team is about to do something we'd never thought we'd do. We're going to advise you to <strong>stop</strong> recycling something that is fully recyclable: thermal cash register receipts. It turns out that the ubiquitous receipts -- the kind you find at most major department stores, grocery stores, bank machines etc. -- contain the nasty cancer causing chemical Bisphenol A or BPA for short. When you recycle the receipts, the BPA that they contain gets tangled up in the paper pulp and then contaminates the recycled paper napkins, toilet paper, plates and cups that come out on the other end of the process.1
Recycling Old Receipts Is Contaminating Green Paper ProductsThe Inhabitat team is about to do something we'd never thought we'd do. We're going to advise you to <strong>stop</strong> recycling something that is fully recyclable: thermal cash register receipts. It turns out that the ubiquitous receipts -- the kind you find at most major department stores, grocery stores, bank machines etc. -- contain the nasty cancer causing chemical Bisphenol A or BPA for short. When you recycle the receipts, the BPA that they contain gets tangled up in the paper pulp and then contaminates the recycled paper napkins, toilet paper, plates and cups that come out on the other end of the process.2
Recycling Old Receipts Is Contaminating Green Paper ProductsThe Inhabitat team is about to do something we'd never thought we'd do. We're going to advise you to <strong>stop</strong> recycling something that is fully recyclable: thermal cash register receipts. It turns out that the ubiquitous receipts -- the kind you find at most major department stores, grocery stores, bank machines etc. -- contain the nasty cancer causing chemical Bisphenol A or BPA for short. When you recycle the receipts, the BPA that they contain gets tangled up in the paper pulp and then contaminates the recycled paper napkins, toilet paper, plates and cups that come out on the other end of the process.3
