From: "Aunty Jo"
To: Stefania (and her brother and sisters)
Subject: Scary Chopstick
Uh...carry Korean metal chopsticks with you.
Mom
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The above note in regards to this:
(As usual, copied verbatim. Also as usual, who knows where she found this information or if it's even true. I've taken the liberty of stripping out the rainbow colors of the original email.)
Scary storey about disposable chopstick
Protect yourself, protect the tree
Do you know what is these chopstick made of?
1. Cut from Bamboo Trees
Brief infor. On production of Disposable Chopstick
2. Production in Central of Vietnam
硫磺 sulfur
雙氧水Hydrogen Peroxide
3. Bleach using sulfur & Hydrogen Peroxide (Not disinfect)
4. Drying process
5. Packing ready to be export to Taiwan, Japan ....
6. Shipping ready to be sent to Taiwan.
It takes 1 mth from Ex-factory to Taiwan. Meantime, the chopstick is exposed to rat & cockroach.
7. Wrapping process (without any disinfection)
Upon arival in Taiwan, these chopstick are sent to small factory to be wrapped without any disinfection process b4 sending to restaurants.
And directly send to customer mouth
There are thousand and million of monkey residing inside these chopstick
Can u see it?
Monkey face inside the chopstick
The leftover from the chemical would stay inside these holes until you use them.
* 1. Soak the chopstick in the water for one week – It stinks
* 2. Planted green pea in the soaked water, resulted longer growing process, it stop growing when reach 5-6cm, & finally died.
* 3. Smoke from burning these chopstick is tested to be acidic.
Conclusion from the experiment conducted by a primary school student
* Avoid using disposable chopstick which is very white as it is not the original colour of the wood. Chopstick that is too white may have been bleach excessively.
* Advisable to soak in hot water b4 use to release carbon dioxide.
* Best not to use these chopstick for bbq, and leave in the soup as it tend to release more carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide found in the bamboo chopstick
* Suffer difficult breathing, vomit, diarrhoea etc. and loss of calcium due to sulfur.
* Suffer Asthma and difficult in breathing
* Limpa blockage
Possible consequences of using disposable chopstick
If you cant avoid...
It is suggested to smell the chopstick b4 use. If any sour smell, possibly it contain CO2. And soak them in warm and hot water for 2 to 3 min to reduce the CO2.
Best is to bring your own chopstick
* A 20-year old tree could produce 3000-4000 pairs of chopstick
* Taiwanese use more than 100 billion pairs
* Which means 29 million of trees are being cut every year
By continuing consuming disposable chopstick..
Disposable chopstick effect to our environment
Is it possible that Taiwan will recycle the use chopstick?
As reported by reliable sources, it was found that the disposable chopstick are being recycle by reusing sulfur & Hydrogen Peroxide.
You heard Aunty Jo. Carry those metal chopsticks!
