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Life Cycle Assessment
Reuse & Recycle?

Reuse & Recycle?

The chemical coating on receipt paper causes it to be non-recyclable1 2 3. The potential for BPA and BPS to leach into the environment poses significant concerns1 3. Moreover, the slender nature of the paper and its chemical composition make it unsuitable for conventional recycling processes1 3.

  1. Pivnenko K, Pedersen GA, Eriksson E, Astrup TF. Bisphenol A and its structural analogues in household waste paper. Waste Manag. 2015 Oct 1;44:39–47. ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎

  2. Gogoi A, Neog B. The dark side of thermal printed paper. Curr Sci. 2016 Jan;110(1):11–2. ↩︎

  3. Astrup TF, Tonini D, Turconi R, Boldrin A. Life cycle assessment of thermal Waste-to-Energy technologies: Review and recommendations. Waste Manag. 2015 Mar 1;37:104–15. ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎

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