iPhone Snaps
Yesterday, while in the McDonald's in Easley South Carolina, I was getting a $1 sweet tea at a self serve "get your own drink" dispenser - I had a tray of food in one hand, my tea in the other - when I pulled one of these lids out - 40 spilled onto the countertop - I put them back. I told management about it. I took this picture when I left 45 minutes later. 
This is a receipt I got from a CVS pharmacy. I purchased 2 items. Four Quarters are pictured for scale. This is completely irresponsible and costly to CVS. Ink & Paper waste to the grossest level I think I've ever seen it.
This is a picture I took with my iPhone on election day right after I took my wife to the polling place nearby. THAT is what I call "election sky". It sounds kinda gay to say this - but when I saw that sky and I knew my wife and I had both voted for Obama - me reluctantly - I sighed because I knew God was going to get us through the rough times ahead and I felt that I had made the right decision.
This is a picture of a fun section of a local Clemson newsletter. Did you know John Carson was on TV for 300 YEARS! I thought Edward McMahon was old.
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For what it's worth, most receipt printers are thermal (ie, use heat to discolor the specially made paper) and thus don't use ink.
Don't get me wrong, it's still a giant waste; I'm just quibbling for its own sake.
Actually ... now that I look at it ... it IS fax like thermal paper ... but as you said ... it still amounts to a huge waste.
I had cut this receipt and it equaled (5) 8.5x11" sheets of paper ... I'm sure it took an insane amount more energy to print ... I honestly didnt know if I should throw it away or put into the recycling bin.
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