This is due to the manufacturing process. Sulfur dioxide is used as a preservative on the wood. In , a Chinese consumer council warned that sulfur dioxide from throwaway chopsticks was connected with an increase in asthma and respiratory problems.
Sulfur dioxide is a toxic gas and source of air pollution. Small amounts of sulfur dioxide can be used in the wine making process, sometimes even in preserving dried fruits. You can also buy a set of formal chopsticks with a carrying case, and use those.
Out of all the animal protein options available, I tend to favor fish. My friends and family are also big sushi fans. Whenever we go out we tend to chose sushi diners to indulge ourselves with. Good thing is that sushi fills us up quickly. I always felt bad for using these chopsticks because I know that all of these chopsticks will end up in the landfill.
For this reason, I added a pair of chopsticks to my travel utensil bag. It is a bit odd to pull it out during dinner at times, but then again, making waves is always odd in the beginning. You made various fine points there. I did a search on the issue and found nearly all persons will agree with your blog. Like Like. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account.
But one young enterprising entrepreneur in England was grabbed by some statistics he came across in several news sources including China Daily. Xinhua: China produces 80 billion pairs of disposable chopsticks a year. Bai Guangxin, chairman of Jilin Forestry Industry Group, estimates that amounts to 20 million year-old trees.
Huffington Post: Based on to statistics, it's more like 57 billion disposable chopsticks a year, accounting for the destruction of 3. National Geographic: The chopstick industry claims millions of poplar, birch and bamboo trees to the tune of million pairs a day, exporting 18 billion pairs annually.
Any way you stack it, the numbers - and implicit deforestation - are staggering. There has to be a better way. London resident Tudor Finneran, 20, has decided to try to get the message out - to younger people in particular - through a mobile phone game app. Chopstick Champion is what he's come up with. They select three dishes from a menu that includes delicacies like exotic caterpillars, wraps, noodles, beans, rice and melon seeds. And the clock starts. Using the two-finger zoom move on a pair of animated chopsticks to grab a piece of food from the plate, players move the eats piece by piece to the character's mouth.
Drop it, which is easy, and he scowls. The catch is that each character benefits most more points from dishes that are from their regional cuisine - so a little biographical research on the accompanying social media ups the rewards. Progressing through the game's 49 levels of play, target point levels increase and time decreases. Across the East China Sea, Japan uses more than 20 billion disposable chopsticks annually, nearly 97 percent of which come from China.
In fact, for a brief time back in the 80's, one American company tried to cash in on Japan's penchant for waribashi, as the throw-away chopsticks are called. The factory failed and closed two years later, crushing townspeople's hopes of providing jobs and dominating the Japanese disposable eating utensils market.
Still, back in China, officials have been trying numerous measures for more than a decade to rein their country's growing appetite for convenience and dining-on-the-run. The government has instituted taxes on the sticks and plenty of citizens — concerned about deforestation of China's forests — have attempted to convince their compatriots to stick with "real" chopsticks through humorous ad campaigns. Opponents of those efforts insist the chopsticks are important to the economy and argue the country's disposable stick factories employ , in economically depressed areas.
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