What’s could be more eco-friendly then carrying around your own “my hashi” personal chopsticks to use instead of the ubiquitous disposable kind? Personal chopsticks made from rice-based biomass plastic, of course!
Index has released the “Rice Eco Chopsticks,” made from a polymer base of unusable rice (due to expiration, damaged packaging, etc.) and polypropelene, to which a resin is added. The final product, made of 35% rice and with 30% less carbon emissions than plastic produced by the processing of fossil fuels, comes in white and natural colors (coincidently, just like rice).
Following an appearance on Fuji TV, the environmentally correct chopsticks are available from the Fuji TV shop for ¥945.
With the eco-boom permeating just about every industry (for example here and here), we’re seeing a lot of products that tread the line between progressive and fad, however these chopsticks seem safely on the innovative side.
I still think wooden chopsticks are more ecological than plastic ones, even 30%-off-carbon-emissions ones
francois – still, you gotta admit, creating greener platic products is good.
25 million tress are cut down every year in China along to make disposable chop sticks. Reusable chop sticks is by far a more green approach. They only have to be manufactured once
how can I buy some of these chopsticks if I dont read chinese?