Not surprisingly, our world is awash in disposable plastic cutlery. Google Answers' best estimates put annual production at about 40 billion pieces in the USA alone. Seem outrageous? Just tally your own consumption, or that of your office, in a two-week span and then calculate your personal annual consumption.
And that, by the way, isn't counting all the billions of pieces coming from China, Thailand, etc. Japan back in the 1800s started making ubiquitous throw-away chopsticks as a...
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