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Skip the Slip: Receipts waste resources AND endanger your health

When an item is physically small, it may not convey the impact it has on the world. Paper receipts are small slips that carry with them vast environmental costs and can pose risks to our health through direct contact.

Filed Under: Mind the Store Tagged With: Best Buy, Beth Porter, bisphenol A (BPA), bisphenols, BPA, BPA in receipts, BPS, breast cancer, developmental problems, endocrine disruptors, Green America, Leah Segedie, prostate cancer, receipts, reproductive health, Target, Trader Joe's

New report: 9 out of 10 receipts contain toxic BPA or BPS

A new report by our partners at HealthyStuff.org out today exposes a danger at many checkout counters—toxic receipts.

Filed Under: Health Science, Mind the Store Tagged With: bisphenol A (BPA), bisphenols, BPA, BPA in receipts, BPS, Ecology Center, HealthyStuff.org, Trader Joe's, Who's Minding the Store? retailer report card

What are we doing to our children’s brains?

Environmental chemicals are wreaking havoc to last a lifetime February 16, 2015/ensia.com  — The numbers are startling. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 1.8 million more children in the U.S. were diagnosed with developmental disabilities between 2006 and 2008 than a decade earlier. During this time, the prevalence of autism […]

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