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On Aug 24, 2010 7:15 PM, "Mike Weaver" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Gasification mailing list [email protected] http://listserv.repp.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_listserv.repp.org http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org http://info.bioenergylists.org
