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14 years ago
Chinese chopsticks -- Made In Georgia! 

About 5-10 years ago I heard that the Chinese were running out of lumber to make chop sticks. Most of the people have reusable sticks for home use. But with so many more people eating out these days the number of chop sticks they use is staggering. they have denuded almost all the trees from which they make the sticks. They looked into trying to reuse or recycle chop sticks when they are used out side of the home but it is a real issue. (Plastic sticks is one option.) Many people buy food right off the little street vendors who are not set up to wash and reuse them. People are also more than a little leery of using the sticks after someone else has used them. Some people bring their own and that helps a little but with over a billion people to feed they go thru chop sticks fast.


Seems like much of what we buy these days is made in China, everything from laptops to cell phones to ink pens.

But an Americus company is turning the tables a bit.

They're selling millions of chopsticks to China.

Jae Lee came up with the idea when he found out more than 1 billion Chinese are in desperate need of disposable wooden chopsticks.

He tried setting up a factory in other places first.

"We tried to run a chopstick plant in South America and then Canada; we've been looking in a lot of different places," Lee told 11Alive News on Monday.

Originally from South Korea and now living in Duluth, Lee finally settled on Americus.

Aside from plenty of willing labor and a welcoming community, he also found the perfect tree.

It turns out poplars, which are plentiful in South Central Georgia, are just what he needed.

Not too soft and not too hard, poplars don't have to be treated with chemicals.

They give Lee an all natural, just right chopstick made in the USA.

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zombieslayer
14 years ago
Of course, there is no overpopulation problem. [duh]

The Chinese recently obliterated the Chinese River Dolphin. Wiped them out of existence. This whole world will look like China does today eventually.
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14 years ago
What is truly sad is that this story is the exception to the rule of norm.. an American company exporting something to China.. or anywhere for that matter.

And that this country wasn't their first choice to build said company.

America has truly fallen in rank.
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zombieslayer
14 years ago

What is truly sad is that this story is the exception to the rule of norm.. an American company exporting something to China.. or anywhere for that matter.

And that this country wasn't their first choice to build said company.

America has truly fallen in rank.

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It's because we got cheap trees. China's almost out of trees because they're so overpopulated.
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14 years ago

What is truly sad is that this story is the exception to the rule of norm.. an American company exporting something to China.. or anywhere for that matter.

And that this country wasn't their first choice to build said company.

America has truly fallen in rank.

Originally Posted by: Pack93z 



very sad. And yet most people still don't get it. People will say it is ok for someone else to have their wages cut in order to make a competitive product. JUST DON'T CUT MINE.

Someone else can/should give back fringe benefits BUT NOT ME.
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