Dear Green American, We have some exciting news about our Skip the Slip campaign working with major retailers to reduce their use of paper receipts and eliminate the toxic chemicals altogether. Thanks to you, the campaign has pushed CVS, the largest pharmacy chain in the US – and others - to make some big changes. CVS has: -
Implemented BPA/BPS-free paper in all 10,000 stores, eliminating its previous BPS receipt paper. -
Added a new receipt prompt at cash registers so that all customers could choose to receive a printed receipt, digital receipt, or no receipt. Within 4 months, the receipt prompt saved 49,802 miles, or over 87 million yards, of receipt paper. That's enough to circle the globe twice. Read about the progress by CVS, Whole Foods, Taco Bell, TJX (owns TJ Max) and others in our latest Skip the Slip report. All thanks to your efforts. While these are positive steps, there is more that companies can do to reduce their environmental impacts. We grade 33 retailers on what they are doing – or not doing – in Green America’s latest receipt scorecard. In 2021, receipt use in the United States consumed 3.6 million trees and over 10 billion gallons of water. Receipt production emits the greenhouse gas equivalent of over 471,000 cars on the road each year. And most thermal paper receipts are coated with BPA or BPS —endocrine-disrupting chemicals linked to various serious health issues. With your support, we will keep encouraging companies to improve receipt practices by providing customers with digital and no receipt options and only using phenol-free, recyclable receipt paper. | 
