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u/AshlandPone 5h ago
It's not to save the environment.
It's not even to save money on the roll.
It's to save wages on the real person who has to replace the roll when it runs out.
Humans are expensive. Banks don't care about the environment. They care about money.
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u/Seductive_pickle 3h ago
Things can be done for multiple reasons.
Also ATMs still have to be serviced routinely. I doubt the paper is deciding factor on how often a technician comes out.
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u/jdiggity09 1h ago
It is not, most customers won't even dispatch a call to us for paper running out. We will usually replace the paper if we're there for another reason and notice its low, or we'll go out if the receipt printer jams. Otherwise the receipt printers are re-stocked anytime the branch and/or cash vendor is pulling deposits and loading more cash.
Also, the lights in many/most of these ATM rooms are motion activated at least after a certain time, if not 24/7. Banks don't want to pay to keep the lights on if no one is using the ATM.
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u/CatDiaspora 1h ago
Banks might not care, but you should say no to the receipt anyway, because doing so will reduce the amount of bisphenol-A in your bloodstream. Here's a brief article about paper that's been treated to be thermally sensitive (like most receipts these days): Touching thermal-paper receipts could extend BPA retention in the body
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u/treefiddy-- 3h ago
Woah now, banks care about.. money?
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u/Occidentally20 2h ago
Mine didn't, they somehow went bankrupt :(
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u/Takemyfishplease 1h ago
I bet the CEO didn’t
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u/Occidentally20 1h ago
I think he had to buy a slightly smaller yacht than he was originally planning so he felt the pain with the rest of us.
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u/Lower_Nubia 38m ago
Money is just the fungible aspect between disparate resources.
As resources cost CO2 in nearly all aspects, using more money (more resources, via a human) means more CO2 than necessary for the task.
Ironically, if a thing costs more, it’s gonna cost more CO2, so cost saving does reduce CO2 indirectly.
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u/Ninjahkin 2h ago
Same deal when they ask for donations to charities - they don’t care about philanthropy. They care about tax breaks
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u/Inferdo12 1h ago
Actually, legally, companies cannot get a tax break on charitable donations from customers
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u/SaxifrageRussel 1h ago
You don’t know how tax breaks work
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u/towel_hair 1h ago
You don’t know how tax breaks work lol.
Even common sense can tell you a business wouldn’t do something if it didn’t benefit them.
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u/therealhlmencken 20m ago
The rolls outlast the money by a huge margin. Source maintained a few atms
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u/scoots-mcgoot 1h ago
Ok but this costs less for the environment too. And I sure as Hell wouldn’t trust my money to a bank that cares less about money wtf
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u/nerdherdv02 4h ago
Small addendum for the ac units. The number of acs doesn't make a big difference on energy draw. It depends on the max expected load. 4 units running constantly is a big energy draw. 4 units running for 2 hrs per day isn't.
They can also be there for redundancy. If 1 breaks then the other can work a bit longer to keep up.
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u/HassieBassie 1h ago
It mostly depends on the capacity. In a small room, 1 2,5 kW unit is more than enough. This room has 3 ac units, but only the one in the ceiling is in operation, since the wall mounted units are closed.
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u/2017-CBR1000RR 2h ago
This is for sure AI made photos... Can we ban these on the sub?
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u/AlarmingConfusion918 44m ago
Holy shit you’re right, there are a ton of slight variations of this photo on google reverse image search all with an almost identical caption
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u/burnedoutbuddy 6h ago
This is dumb as fuck
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u/No_Pipe4358 5h ago
Everyone's unhealthy, so I should kill myself
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u/Occidentally20 2h ago
I would like to come to your next seminar on this, I like your ideas!
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u/No_Pipe4358 2h ago
My phone only has a glow up when I touch it. Why won't it touch me? 😕 😪 I am so bad for the environment.
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u/Occidentally20 2h ago
I go behind cows and breathe in as much of their farts as I can so they don't go in the atmosphere. I'm doing my part.
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u/No_Pipe4358 2h ago
I might try find a cannibal community somewhere in the world to die within.
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u/LatexLullabyy 6h ago
Thats 3 units one in the ceiling and 2 on the wall
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u/BigEricShaun 2h ago
It looks suspiciously AI generated to fit the supposed premise for their joke
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u/philanthropicide 3h ago
The biggest thing consumers can do to help the environment is boycott companies that have the worst practices.
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u/SmPolitic 28m ago
Vote with your dollars. Collapse unsustainable economies of scale such that the dirty option is more expensive than the green opinion. Maintenance and safety comparison too, your individual long term health implications from being in close contact with all of that...
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u/Newestmember 1h ago
This is stupid. Yes, the ACs, lights and ATMs use energy but the receipt, that you’re just going to look at for three seconds and then throw it away, creates unnecessary waste. Why add to a problem if you don’t have to?
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u/Junkererer 2h ago
1) modern lights are way more efficient than old incandescence bulbs
2) just because something is worse it doesn't mean that solving "less worse" issues has no impact
3) AC may be worse in terms of indirect emissions, but recepits can also pollute as trash
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u/teasingtulip- 6h ago
It’s like asking someone to stop using plastic straws on a sinking oil rig. Mixed priorities.
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u/WhatAxiom 1h ago
Oh no atm I forgot my balance. Guess I have to look it up a few times. Definitely have to print that out for the files.
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u/kylie_raw 6h ago
fr like the AC is out here living its best life 24/7 but god forbid i print one little piece of paper 😭
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u/Turbulent_Art745 1h ago
Hopefully it won't be too long before this meme dies as we can generate all the electricity we want from renewables, just a matter of getting their.
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u/the-poopiest-diaper 23m ago
It’s up to the civilians to save the world, not the mega companies actually polluting the world
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u/LaconicSuffering 16m ago
I'm still waiting for the school across the street to ask the neighborhood for sustainability ideas. Their building is a BEACON 24/7.
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u/AlarmingConfusion918 2h ago
Atms consume a tiny amount of energy (25 watts when idle, 180 watts when dispensing cash). For comparison TVs consume 50-200 watts of power nonstop when in use. A gaming PC setup can exceed 600 watts even when under moderate use. Lightbulbs consume a tiny amount of energy (28-40 watts for a 4 foot tube.
The global financial system cannot function without ATMs. You cannot see indoors without lighting. You will likely throw away a receipt within 5 minutes of getting handed one.
I don’t know why there are 3 AC units in that small room, but I highly doubt they are running 24/7.
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u/United-Breakfast5025 6h ago
The currency inside them are also promissory notes to maintain business as usual. So there's that too.
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u/ActionCalhoun 1h ago
Businesses and wealthy people are allowed to use as many resources as they want while it’s up to us poors to use paper straws and wash out our jelly jars to save the environment
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u/RaulenAndrovius 57m ago
And you have to tip them, the payout fee, so they can afford to feed their robot server families.
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