Everyday Green Thinking @ Whole Foods

Saw that my receipt from Whole Foods was shorter than usual.  Then I turned it over to see that about half of the items were printed on the backside of the receipt.  Here's a pic:

Printing on both sides reduced the amount of paper used by about 50%.  Taking this Green thinking a step further, Mark Graban from the Lean Blog asks, "Why don't they give you the option of saying 'no receipt please'?"

I've always asked the same question myself at gas stations when the computer at the pump doesn't give the me option of declining a receipt.  This is wasteful, for obvious reasons, but it's also annoying because I have to wait around in 32 degree weather for the stupid receipt to print.

An Inconvenient Check

Mark Graban over at the Lean Blog posted this "tweet" on Twitter:

"Going to ask my credit card bank to quit mailing me 'convenience checks.'  Convenient only for ID thieves."

That got me thinking about how truly annoying and wasteful those stupid checks are. You get them too, right?  They usually come in the form of an unsolicited full page of five or six blank checks that nobody ever uses.  You probably do the same thing that I do, you immediately tear-up or shred those suckers and throw 'em away.  Waste of paper, waste of ink, waste of the mailman's time, waste of my time, and as Mark mentioned, a risk for ID theft.  What the heck?  I'd bet that the statement on the photo below is true...