Think about it: Paper Receipts Suck. How many times have you needed to view your receipt, from a purchase that you made weeks ago, only to find yourself sifting through hundreds of non-uniform pieces of paper thrown in your wallet, purse, shoebox and trash can.
Not only that, a lot of resources are wasted to produce a 6 inch piece of paper with an average lifespan of only 3 seconds: Over 600,000 tons of receipts are used each year. It takes 17 trees, 19,000 gallons of water and 390 gallons of oil to produce just 1 ton of receipts. To produce these paper receipts, over 10 million trees are cut down each year in the United States alone. The majority of these paper receipts are manufactured using non-recyclable thermal paper creating a vicious cycle that ultimately adds to paper waste that accounts for 25% of all landfills in the U.S.
At 3SecondReceipts we live by the Emmerson quote, ““Nothing great was ever done without enthusiasm.” With each client we work with we are completely dedicated to not only replacing paper receipts with digital ones but influencing a new zealous lifestyle by showing how easy it is to reduce a person’s carbon footprint.