High levels of toxic chemicals found in paper receipts used by US retailers
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/14/paper-receipt-chemical-bisphenol-s
High levels of toxic chemicals found in paper receipts used by US retailers

Holding the receipts for 10 seconds absorbs enough bisphenol S to break California’s safety rule, research finds

The Guardian
@jeffjarvis Yes and we continue to clearcut forests for a one time harvest of pulp for paper using a process that is so toxic it kills maintenance workers that do annual shut downs for service ever since we got wise one hundred years ago and banned cannabis as an illegal narcotic then immediately destroyed the hemp crops of the farmers for safety. Eliminating annual hemp production for paper and textiles people used for thousands of years. Just so we could rely completely upon cotton for too.
@jeffjarvis These are the thermal printer tapes that came out in the 1980s. We have known about this since the beginning, but the cheap reliable print mechanism made them too popular for anyone with money to care.