The Chinese government is introducing a 5% tax on disposable wooden chopsticks in a bid to preserve its forests. It produces about 45 billion pairs of chopsticks a year, consuming millions of birch, poplar and bamboo trees. (BBC)
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Is the Star still accepting
adverts from hardwood veneer flooring
companies that can not reveal that
they got it from illegal logging
and such terrible places as
Burma and Irian Jaya?
Linkname: www.smh.com.au - Floorboards put the finishing touch on
forests
URL:
http://www.smh.com.au/text/articles/2006/03/22/1142703443042.ht
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and
Posted by: Bill Lee | March 23, 2006 at 02:34 AM