Lawmakers in New York City are considering a ban on paper receipts coated with the chemical BPA. They’re also considering a requirement that retailers offer emailed receipts instead of paper ones.

If you walk into a neighborhood coffee shop in San Francisco and buy a drink, you’ll probably pay on a Square reader and get your receipt by email. If you walk into the Walgreens next door, you might ...

As lawmakers and health experts wrestle over whether a controversial chemical, bisphenol-A, should be banned from food and beverage containers, a new analysis by an environmental group suggests ...

Kudos to San Francisco Assemblyman Phil Ting for introducing Assembly Bill 161, legislation that would require businesses to switch to electronic receipts. Customers would still be able to request a ...

People interested in limiting exposure to bisphenol A — a hormone-mimicking environmental contaminant — might want to consider wearing gloves the next time a store clerk hands over a cash-register ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Action News Jax collected dozens of local receipts and had them tested by a lab. It found most of them contained a harmful ...

People are exposed to the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) mainly through foods and beverages, especially those in cans. But BPA, a potentially harmful chemical, is also found on receipts, and new research ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Use of the endocrine-disrupting chemicals BPA and BPS in receipts has decreased since 2017 and use of ...

Lawmakers in New York City are considering a ban on paper receipts coated with the chemical BPA. They’re also considering a requirement that retailers offer emailed receipts instead of paper ones. The ...