The raw materials used by regular manufacturers to produce disposable chopsticks are all wood with good texture and have not been specially processed. However, in order to reduce costs, some small workshops use inferior wood, which looks darker. Some lawless elements will fumigate and bleach chopsticks with sulfur in order to make them white.
A large amount of sulfur dioxide will be produced after sulfur gas bleaching, and sulfur dioxide will solidify when it is cold. Therefore, when eating with these chopsticks, sulfur dioxide can easily solidify to the respiratory tract with the flow of air, leading to cough, asthma and other diseases.
To identify the quality of disposable chopsticks, we should first look at whether the name, trademark and contact information of the manufacturer are printed on the package. Second, you can smell chopsticks. If there is sour sulfur smell, it is best not to use them. Of course, the best way is to clean the surface of chopsticks with cold water to reduce the residue of sulfur dioxide.
The consumption of wooden chopsticks in China market is huge. Take disposable wooden chopsticks as an example, it consumes 45 billion pairs of disposable wooden chopsticks (about 1.66 million cubic meters of wood) every year. Every 5,000 pairs of wooden disposable chopsticks consume a poplar that has been growing for 30 years. The production of convenient disposable wooden chopsticks in China consumes more than 0/00 mu of forest every day, totaling 36,000 years in A Mu.
Disadvantages of disposable chopsticks
Everything has advantages and disadvantages. Today we will discuss the disadvantages of disposable chopsticks, but I believe that the disadvantages of disposable chopsticks must outweigh the benefits, because disposable chopsticks have not brought us much benefit! However, for us, there are countless disadvantages!
Speaking of the disadvantages of disposable chopsticks, I remembered the information I read on the Internet: The original disposable chopsticks were not invented by China, but invented and developed by the Japanese in China. At that time, a Japanese businessman came to China to discuss the benefits of disposable chopsticks with the Heilongjiang government. At that time, it was said that we in Japan paid for the construction of factories and the labor force, and all you had to do was give up some wood. The power of money is extremely powerful at any time. Anyway, the China government is right. As far as I know, there are 25.7 billion pairs of disposable chopsticks in Japan, but the output of disposable chopsticks in Japan only accounts for about 3%, and 96% of disposable chopsticks are imported from China. As an island country, Japan's forest coverage rate is as high as 65%, with little soil erosion, while China's forest coverage rate is less than 14%, resulting in desertification of land resources. Moreover, China produces 45 billion pairs of disposable chopsticks every year and needs to cut down 25 million trees. At the current rate, China will cut down all the forests in 20 years, and China will be destroyed in 20 years. If we want to dress China in 200-year-old green clothes, it is not enough. In a narrow sense, are disposable chopsticks really hygienic? In fact, the words "high temperature disinfection, cleanliness and hygiene" are printed on the packaging of disposable chopsticks, but in practice, because disposable chopsticks are cheap and have a large market share, in order to compete for this market, many small enterprises adopt sulfur fumigation, hydrogen peroxide, sodium sulfate soaking, bleaching and talcum powder polishing, just to reduce costs, which can not achieve the purpose of sanitation and disinfection at all, and the polyethylene mold of disposable chopsticks is more harmful to people. I believe you don't have the habit of eating plastic bags, but this kind of thing that comes down from the production line will produce more harmful components at high temperature, which will induce many chronic diseases in the human body. How can I be hygienic?
Moreover, disposable chopsticks may also have a "greenhouse effect", because in a vicious circle, there will be fewer trees, more carbon dioxide, thicker atmosphere, and it will be difficult to dissipate heat, which will produce a "greenhouse effect" and then more victims! Hard to turn back! So I suggest you stop using disposable chopsticks and save resources.