Japanese restaurants are known for their prevalent, wasteful and environmentally-unfriendly use of disposable wooden chopsticks. We visited one recently and came prepared – with our own washable chopsticks. When you throw away chopsticks, you are essentially throwing trees away. I heard that the rationale for using the throwaway chopsticks is that the Japanese are very particular about hygiene. But if it is really so, why not…
1. use disposable ‘everything’ else too? (Just kidding!)
2. bring personal bowls to restaurants too?
3. use personal chopsticks from home… like we do?
Hah!
When you ab/use resources unmindfully,
you squander your blessings mindlessly.– Stonepeace