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Originally Posted by slapass
Recycling requires energy. A wire transfer or epass does too.
Can't cash a check without it going through the fed and using electricity.
Recycled paper uses energy but lets call it neutral here.
Checks can't be printed without some sort of power and lets face it, electricity.
Could be composted but less then 1% are.
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Recycling paper does require energy, less goes in than out though.
Technically you can use a check at least 1 step less in the energy chain. Yet electronic forms also require energy usage of at least the same.
Checks could be printed without some sort of power - I just said if a company desired. After all we did have printing before electricity. Then hell if they really wanted they could run a press of of pure wind or water power, as they did in past.
Where did you get that less than 1% of checks are composted. We personally compost all of our shredded paper and I would imagine many others do as well - if not again recycled back into paper.
Now you have a plastic card that will technically last forever.
A plastic card that will be updated at least every few years and you can not do anything with the old cards aside from maybe cut coke.
Plastics are fairly vile from a production stand point.
Some plastics can be recycled, most can not and even those that can few facilities have capabilities.
Such cards require actual terminals to be used at locations.
Inside the US checks are of no fee to use, deposit, etc. ATM / card transactions typically have fee's.