Bring your Own Chopsticks & Save the Planet
Did you know that the use of disposable chopsticks is contributing to the decimation of forests in China?
Asia’s appetite for chopsticks has resulted in the loss of 25 million trees a year in China and since the start of the decade and the country has exported over 165,000 tonnes of chopsticks, with 15 billion pairs finding their way to dinner tables in Japan and South Korea. One estimate states that a nation wide noodle chain in China uses 160,000 pair of chopsticks each day. That’s a lot of trees!
…environmentalists say they (chopsticks) are up there with plastic carrier …read more
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