PSA: Throw away all of your receipts before they turn to plastic dust. A bag of 15+ year old receipts ripped open and spilled all over my carpet releasing plastic waste.
This bag has receipts that are at least 15 years old. Many receipts I unfold have this green and opaque soft debris that flies everywhere. I did a little research and learned that receipts use thermal paper which has the highest concentration of BPA of basically anything and that is what that debris is! I didn't think much beforehand, so there I was just going through everything with no gloves or mask and I can't help but think of all of the BPA I absorbed in the 2 hours it took me to go through everything.
In this Home Depot shopping bag full of receipts there was like a cup of this 'plastic receipt debris' that fell into my carpet, and my OCD is making me wonder if vacuuming it even picked all that BPA laden waste up or if it's just always going to be in the air and carpet .
Sighs** I hate plastic and now I'm paranoid my bedroom just turned into a toxic wasteland.