Toxic Receipts: What you need to know

Unassuming toxic chemicals surround our everyday lives and are absorbed into our bodies. Some of these unassuming chemicals are bisphenol A (BPA) and bisphenol S (BPS). BPA/BPS are used in many applications, including on thermal paper cash register receipts. This is of great concern to retail workers, due to the high number of receipts that cashiers handle daily.
UFCW Canada Local 175 & 633's Mary Shaw breaks down what BPA and BPS are and how they affect working people.

[@breelikesboys]

Wow, if bpa is banned in Canada, how come it is still allowed in small amounts in things we use here; Including, but not limited to, thermal receipt paper? Don’t you think it would be really easy and wise to change something like that, the kind of paper a machine uses? Isn’t it true that receipt paper isn’t recyclable either!?

[@PureMagma]

How are business owners and employers supposed to get rid of these chemicals? We would have to refuse to accept credit cards because we are tied to whatever equipment our merchant processing services companies allow. Congratulations on being so out of touch that you believe that employees complaining about this issue to their employers will have any effect on how BANKS select the equipment they believe is capable of processing secure financing transactions. Let alone how customers react if they are deprived of having a record of their transaction.