*China's 45 Billion Disposable Chopsticks Require 100 Acres of Forests
Every 24 Hours*
by Michael Graham Richard, Ottawa, Canada
*That's a Lot of Chopsticks*
Apparently China's Ministry of Commerce has had it with disposable
chopsticks. It sent out a warning to chopstick makers in June to warn
them that: "Production, circulation and recycling of disposable
chopsticks should be more strictly supervised." The reason? With about
45 /billion/ disposable chopstick pairs made every year in the country,
or about 130 million a day, a lot of wood is being wasted, and that in a
country that is trying to increase its forest coverage (from about 8% in
1949 to 12-13% today, compared to 30% for the USA).
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/08/china-45-billion-disposable-chopsticks-100-acres-every-24-hours.php
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