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Life Sciences => The Environment => Topic started by: Pseudoscience-is-malarkey on 25/09/2023 15:30:45

Title: How beneficial are paperless receipts, invoices, paychecks, etc, for our planet?
Post by: Pseudoscience-is-malarkey on 25/09/2023 15:30:45
Throughout my country companies are phasing out printed transactions. Is it actually helpful? Is it greenwashing?
Title: Re: How beneficial are paperless receipts, invoices, paychecks, etc, for our planet?
Post by: Origin on 25/09/2023 16:13:08
Quote from: Pseudoscience-is-malarkey on 25/09/2023 15:30:45
Is it actually helpful?
Helpful in what way?
Quote from: Pseudoscience-is-malarkey on 25/09/2023 15:30:45
Is it greenwashing?
What is greenwashing?
Title: Re: How beneficial are paperless receipts, invoices, paychecks, etc, for our planet?
Post by: vhfpmr on 25/09/2023 18:17:14
Quote from: Origin on 25/09/2023 16:13:08
Quote from: Pseudoscience-is-malarkey on 25/09/2023 15:30:45
Is it greenwashing?
What is greenwashing?
Dressing up everything as environmentally friendly regardless of whether it is or not.
Title: Re: How beneficial are paperless receipts, invoices, paychecks, etc, for our planet?
Post by: alancalverd on 26/09/2023 19:52:09
A paper receipt is sequestered carbon, and paper manufacturers sensibly plant more trees than they cut down. A paperless transaction requires the continuous expenditure of electrical energy to maintain the legal record in a retrievable condition.

The oldest known written document is a Sumerian builder's invoice, probably 6000 years old. Can anyone read a 30-year-old floppy disc?
Title: Re: How beneficial are paperless receipts, invoices, paychecks, etc, for our planet?
Post by: Petrochemicals on 27/09/2023 06:54:07
Quote from: alancalverd on 26/09/2023 19:52:09
A paper receipt is sequestered carbon, and paper manufacturers sensibly plant more trees than they cut down. A paperless transaction requires the continuous expenditure of electrical energy to maintain the legal record in a retrievable condition.

The oldest known written document is a Sumerian builder's invoice, probably 6000 years old. Can anyone read a 30-year-old floppy disc?
Depends if they put a label on it.
Title: Re: How beneficial are paperless receipts, invoices, paychecks, etc, for our planet?
Post by: Petrochemicals on 27/09/2023 06:55:02
Quote from: Pseudoscience-is-malarkey on 25/09/2023 15:30:45
Throughout my country companies are phasing out printed transactions. Is it actually helpful? Is it greenwashing?
I quite like having a account or emailed receipts, I can always find them.