No more paper that immediately ends up in the garbage:with Billd the tax receipts are in the cloud

Tax receipts involve a huge waste of thermal paper, which is not recyclable.The startup Billd allows you to digitize them.

• In Europe, 11 million trees are sacrificed every year to produce tax receipts.
• With Billd, merchants and customers now have the opportunity to issue and receive them electronically, without waste.
• Significant savings for shopkeepers and the environment, and for customers the possibility of cataloging and managing their expenses.

There is a sustainability problem that even the most attentive consumers and retailers often underestimate:The paper receipts.The use of thermal paper for printing, in fact, has an enormous environmental impact, much greater than we probably think:every year, to satisfy this demand, an area equal to the surface of the whole of Europe is deforested Luxembourg, sacrificing 11 million trees and using 38 billion liters of water, equivalent in turn to 15 thousand Olympic swimming pools.And that's barely half the problem, because printing tax receipts weighs 670 thousand tons of CO2 per year:like 20 thousand intercontinental flights from Rome to Tokyo, in Japan. Thermal paper which is not recyclable and therefore must be disposed of in the waste binundifferentiated.

How Billd works and what changes for tax receipts

Impressive numbers, once we remove them from the field of abstraction and visualize them through such clear examples.An effective response, however, comes from an Italian startup, Billd.The solution, specifically, is a innovative device, compatible with any cash register, capable of digitizing receipts and sending them directly to the customer's smartphone.Without the obligation for the customer to leave their email or telephone number:in fact, receipts are stored in a storage space cloud unlimited and always accessible.

The advantages for traders and consumers

For shopkeepers who install it, the savings are estimated at purchase of paper and ink it is around 1,200 euros a year.But that's not all, because Billd also offers a system business intelligence integrated, thanks to an advanced model of deep reinforcement learning, deep reinforcement learning typical of artificial intelligence, which analyzes big market data.For retailers, it is an opportunity to obtain valuable information on purchasing behaviors and therefore optimize their commercial strategies based on the data collected.In the long term, it allows us to respond more effectively to consumer needs and, for example, avoid waste linked to unsold items, transport of useless goods, packaging that is unnecessary and perhaps complicated to dispose of.

However, the benefits are also for the consumer who can keep track of your monthly expenses and organize purchases by category thanks to an app integrated with artificial intelligence, which is not mandatory to download to use the digital receipt service.The app is a useful and free tool with which to manage your personal finances.And say goodbye to perishable, crumpled, thick slips of paper destined to be trashed a second after being issued.Come on Maker faire And We make future, via Microsoft, lo European Institute of innovation & technologyAnd Tenity, Swiss accelerator and investment fund, in many have already welcomed Billd into the large family of technological innovation:now all that remains is to trust in an ever-increasing environmental sensitivity on the part of operators.