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The Beijing News reported Wednesday that a Beijing factory recycled used chopsticks and sold up to 100,000 pairs a day without any form of disinfection, adding that officials raided the factory and seized about half a million pairs of recycled disposable bamboo chopsticks and a packaging machine.The owner, identified only by his surname Wu, was cited as saying he had sold the recycled chopsticks for 0.04 yuan a pair and made an average of about 1,000 yuan ($130) a day.
Wu, who had no license to sell the goods, said he had sold 100,000 pairs a day when business was good.
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January 14, 2009 8:04 AM
A Japanese man spent over 3 months gluing together used chopsticks to make a canoe. Shuhei Ogawara collected the 7,382 chopsticks from the cafeteria at the city hall where he worked. The collection took two years. Ogawara commented that simply...
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