Green Chopsticks

Information on this issue is spotty and need to be improved.

Regarding chopstick materials:

• Do bamboo chopsticks use renewable bamboo or do they impact sensitive old bamboo forests (possibly panda habitat)?
• What are the relative ecological costs and merits of melamine (plastic) and stainless steel?
• Is it possible to make chopsticks out of recycled food-grade plastic?

We also need to find out more about:

• aspen/poplar forest ecology
• impact in the Philippines, Indonesia and elsewhere
• numbers and patterns of chopstick use in the US, Korea, Europe and elsewhere