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March 15, 2013 05:17 pm PDT

Eco headline of the week: Disposable chopstick addiction destroying China's forests

From the Washington Post: "China uses 20 million trees each year to feed the countrys disposable chopstick habit... 4,000 chopsticks per tree, thats roughly 80 billion chopsticks per year." All those chopsticks have led to "rampant deforestation and forest quality far below the global average," and Greenpeace estimates the destruction rate at 1.18 million square [...]

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