Redler. I should have known.
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Mike Redler <[email protected]> wrote: > *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 > * > * > _______________________________________________ > Gasification mailing list > [email protected] > http://listserv.repp.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_listserv.repp.org > http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org > http://info.bioenergylists.org > _______________________________________________ Gasification mailing list [email protected] http://listserv.repp.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_listserv.repp.org http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org http://info.bioenergylists.org
