Paper is evil
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- ukit
Forget a world without money, how about a world without paper? At the risk of sounding like a pot-smoking hippie, if we seriously reduced paper usage, it would help businesses save money, while slowing destruction of the worlds' forests.
Simple example. why do stores still insist on giving you a paper receipt of what you bought, when a lot of people don't even use cash to buy things anymore? You've got an electronic tracking system on the store's end AND on the consumer end, yet for some reason the default position is still to give every single person who buys something a piece of paper. Imagine how much money and resources we would save just by ending the use of paper receipts.
- quack0
ever notice you still get a receipt? that's called a tangible.
- CALLES0
BULLSHIT... toilet paper is my friend
- ukit0
- marychain0
I understand what you are saying, but there is a lot more to consider
The fact is we could do with less paper, but saying paper is evil is somewhat naive....we need more sustainability....better responsibilty.
The fact is a paperless society really doesn't offset the issue of all the electricity being used to go paperless.
We need to think "why" we're doing something and figure out how to do it with as little imprint on the earth as possible. Not just banning paper because it's evil.
- I sort of kidding with the title, riffing off this thread http://www.qbn.com/t…ukit
- yeah...I figured.
marychain
- elahon0
- http://www.motifake.…d_rek
- We're not going to turn back 1,000 years to save treesmonospaced
- hahahaha brodieJG_LB
- you wipe your ass with butter?scarabin
- spraycan0
hey dude you are the new tech boy? you dont like paper ?
- Meeklo0
I would be more concern about reducing plastic than paper
Imagine if for every time you bought a plastic bottle, and get a paper receipt, and pile up both in different landfills, the plastic one will be way more damaging to the planet than the paper one.
And if we stop using plastic cards that have expiration dates that will be eventually end up in a landfill instead of paper money that is reusable, and is only considered a waste when you pay cash to see a movie starring vin diesel :)
- sherm0
Apple gives me a receipt via email and I have them all archived just in case. We can do without paper except for toilet paper of course...
- instrmntl0
i need to make this into a ytmnd: