Green Options » buffet http://greenoptions.com/tag/buffet Posts tagged 'buffet' Sun, 18 May 2008 05:58:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Plausible Uses for your Everyday Junk! http://craftingagreenworld.com/2008/05/17/plausible-uses-for-your-everyday-junk/ http://craftingagreenworld.com/2008/05/17/plausible-uses-for-your-everyday-junk/#comments Sun, 18 May 2008 05:58:49 +0000 Angelo S. http://craftingagreenworld.com/2008/05/17/plausible-uses-for-your-everyday-junk/ Living in the Western world, we Americans aren’t quite attuned to the disposal of used chopsticks. It simply isn’t that big of a problem, as we hurl food into our gaping maws with spiky metal shovels. Generally speaking, the only time we chop down forests in order to feed ourselves is when McDonald’s expands its beef production into the Amazon. The Chinese, our brothers and sisters across the great blue expanse, have an additional problem: chopsticks. They produce approximately 45 billion pairs a year, most of which being as disposable as a Uwe Boll movie. That amounts to about 25 million trees a year.

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