{"id":94,"date":"2010-12-05T04:16:50","date_gmt":"2010-12-05T12:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/valeriesong\/?p=94"},"modified":"2010-12-05T04:17:52","modified_gmt":"2010-12-05T12:17:52","slug":"screwing-around-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/valeriesong\/2010\/12\/05\/screwing-around-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Screwing Around (Facts)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Chopsticks are traditionally used with (amongst others) Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Laotian, Thai, Burmish cuisines. It is such a popular eating utensil in Asia that up to 130 million pairs of chopsticks, and equivalent of 100 acres of trees, are used every day.<\/div>\n
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The wooden version of this widely used eating utensil often seen in restaurants and food courts, however, has a very negative impact on the world and health.<\/div>\n
So how is a pair of take-out chopsticks made (credit<\/a>)?<\/div>\n
1. Bamboo trees cut<\/div>\n
2. Production in central Vietnam<\/div>\n
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3. Bleaching<\/div>\n
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4. Drying<\/div>\n
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5. Packing<\/div>\n
6. Shipping<\/div>\n
7. Wrapping<\/div>\n
Now after the consumers use the chopsticks in restaurants, here is what happens:<\/div>\n
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To conserve money and “resources”, some people in China even resort to picking out thicker pairs of bamboo chopsticks and shaving off the outer sides to prepare for repackaging.<\/div>\n
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What other harmful effects do disposable chopsticks cause?<\/div>\n
– factor to deforestation & desertification in China (causes landslides and floods)<\/div>\n
– because bamboo can be expensive, chopsticks are often made from birch, a tree that takes 30 – 40 years to mature<\/div>\n
So, let’s screw around, on the go, wherever we go.<\/div>\n
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One last video here showcasing reusable chopsticks that can be bought at Tzu Chi: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NnpVcL5FpbE<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To follow up on a previous blog post, I have given details to the making of chopsticks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/valeriesong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/valeriesong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/valeriesong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/valeriesong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/valeriesong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/valeriesong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/valeriesong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/valeriesong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/valeriesong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/valeriesong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}