The truth behind disposable chopsticks!

Ever thought of how safe is it to put it to our daily food and into our mouth?
How clean are they?
How many bamboo trees have to be cut down to produce these many chopsticks?
Many people think that disposable chopsticks are more hygienic because after using, they are thrown away.

I hope that the information that I'm going to provide below will help some of my friends and bloggers to realise the disadvantages of using disposable bamboo chopsticks!

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Let me tell you how bamboo chopsticks are made!

1. Most of the bamboo trees in Southeast Asia are being cut down...

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2.Ask your hawkers where their chopsticks are produce...
Production of these chopsticks are from Central of Vietnam...

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3. Bleach using sulphur and hydrogen peroxide.

This process is not to disinfect the chopsticks, but they are using it to make it looks white and clean.

Consequences after using chopsticks with all these chemicals :

a.Suffer difficult breathing, vomit, diarrhoea etc. and loss of calcium due to sulfur.
b.Suffer Asthma and difficult in breathing.
c.Sulfur contains heavy metal chemical such as lead and mercury. d.Such heavy metal can accumulate in our body and can cause lead poisoning or mercury poisoning.
e.Lymph cancer.

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4.Drying process..

Upon packing, these chopsticks will be shipped to our country and being distributed to the restaurants... and into our mouth! (yucks!)

Furthermore it requires a twenty years old tree to produce 3000-4000 pairs of chopsticks, and after using these chopsticks.... of cause it will all end up like that!

LOOK how it will going to affect our environment?!

Conclusion, disposable chopstiocks are NOT CLEAN for start, it DESTROYS OUR ENVIRONMENT and moreover it is DANGEROUS FOR OUR HEALTH!

So,the only solution right now is to stop using disposable chopsticks and bring your own chopsticks where ever you go... ( I find it difficult to do it at first espeacially doing all the explanation to others, but now I felt good doing my part for the environment and keeping myself safe. At the same time, spreading awareness to others too!)

Tell a friend today, and bring your own chopsticks!
(Article inspired by xiaoyenzi.com)