What Has Hidden Behind The Disposable Chopsticks

By Author: Code Blue
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Today, people greatly accelerate the pace of life, to save time, people more and more use “one-off items.” While this brings convenience to people's lives, however, from the environmental point of view, behind this convenient and fast one-off items is a lot of resources wasted and the accumulation of garbage, which brings endless troubles.

According to the survey, currently there are thousands of production of wooden chopsticks, the annual consumption of wood resources is nearly 500 million cubic meters. In the national forest harvesting is about 47.58 million cubic meters, while these chopsticks account for 10.5%. In the process of production of chopsticks, from logs to wood and then finished product, the effective utilization of wood is only 60%.

Here we take a look at the making of disposable chopsticks: firstly, cut bamboo, which are almost from South East Asia. Secondly, after cutting bamboo, the workers use machines to cut into the bamboo, and then process into the shape of chopsticks. Thirdly, in the production process of one-time chopsticks, in order to maintain a good sell, usually through the sulfur ...
... fumigation or hydrogen peroxide bleaching process, and the chopsticks through the bleached will not like bamboo but as white as wood. Fourthly, the chopsticks after sulfur fumigation or hydrogen peroxide shower are exposed to dry, and then they are processed into what we have seen in the canteen. Fifthly, the chopsticks may be boxed or exposed to transport. Sixthly, the naked chopsticks packaging are unsterilized. In the following make shipment from the factory to the port, then all the way from the port in Southeast Asia they are transported to China. Those chopsticks live on board about a month. Within this month, the ship’s rats, cockroaches and other insects crawl and excrete in the chopsticks, but the rats, cockroaches probably will not bite or eat chopsticks, because they know that a dip in hydrogen peroxide or sulfur smoked chopsticks is not good.

However, we had sent these chopsticks into our mouth. Originally we thought the disposable chopsticks are clean, and use it not only fast, but also do not be infected by others to carry the bacteria. But now it seems that we were wrong. The original, disposable chopsticks are not necessarily safe, not only a threat to our life and health, but also damage to the environment. So, I think we should try to avoid one-time products, so this not only protects our environment, but also protects our own health.

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