Angelica Mari, Computing, Friday 3 July 2009 at 09:32:00

Printing on both sides of paper across 9,500 checkouts will cut the firm’s carbon footprint by more than 280 tonnes

Sainsbury’s has reduced the energy use at checkouts by 35 to 50 per cent and cut paper use by 40 per cent by printing till receipts on both sides.

The NCR-provided printers are in use across 7,000 checkouts in the UK, and the retailer said it has seen a “substantial” reduction in CO2 emissions since using the devices. When the implementation across 9,500 tills is complete, the firm expects a carbon reduction of around 284 tonnes.

The initiative won the product premier award at Business Commitment to the Environment (BCE) Environmental Leadership Awards this week.

’The BCE award recognises the efforts that Sainsbury’s and NCR have put into improving the environmental performance of our tills,” said Sainsbury’s head of store IT installations, Dennis Fuller.

“This technology not only provides environmental benefits, but also provides customers with shorter, more manageable receipts, faster print times and fewer stoppages for receipt roll changes.”

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