"Many Photos" - Wetherspoon pubs have stopped automatically handing out receipts in bid to save on waste paper

Pub chain JD Wetherspoon has stopped automatically giving receipts to customers to save paper.

Boss Tim Martin said pubgoers can still request them but they will not be given out as a matter of course.

The company, which has 900 UK pubs, said receipts generated mess and most customers did not want them.

Pub chain JD Wetherspoon has stopped automatically giving receipts to customers to save paper. Boss Tim Martin, pictured, said pubgoers can still request them but they will not be given out as a matter of course 

A spokesman explained: ‘We stopped because it created a mess at the bar, was a hassle for the pub teams – plus it was a waste of paper and money as the customers didn’t really want them either.’  

Dozens of other leading firms have also ditched paper receipts. Topshop, Urban Outfitters, Gap, New Look and Halfords offer emailed receipts instead.

The company, which has 900 UK pubs, said receipts generated mess and most customers did not want them 

However, some Wetherspoon customers are annoyed. Stephen Simpson, of Keighley, West Yorkshire, wrote to the chain’s magazine, saying: ‘I am wondering why you have stopped issuing receipts for meals at your pubs.

‘Twice now I have ordered meals with side orders as extras. 

'Both times the side orders never arrived, leaving me wondering whether I had ordered them in the first place. 

'With a receipt I’d be able to see exactly what I ordered and show staff what may be missing.'

Mr Martin replied: 'If you ask a member of staff, you can get one this way.'

UK retailers hand out 11.2billion receipts weighing 7,300 tons a year at a cost of £32million. 

Most cannot be recycled because they have a fine plastic coating which contaminates other materials. 

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