Comments on: Paper book covers should be sacrificed for the environment http://whatjapanthinks.com/2010/04/18/paper-book-covers-should-be-sacrificed-for-the-environment/ From kimono to keitai; research Japanese facts and figures through translated opinion polls and surveys. Thu, 10 Apr 2014 22:29:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.2 By: William http://whatjapanthinks.com/2010/04/18/paper-book-covers-should-be-sacrificed-for-the-environment/comment-page-1/#comment-227700 Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:04:08 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/?p=2589#comment-227700 I can remember I once got a couple of bagels and some coffee for lunch and I got SIX bags for everything. Shops in Japan definitely overwrap.

I think the best thing to get rid of would be the cult of individual wrappings for everything. Tiny biscuits, all in individual plastic wrappers. I can understand if they’re gifts, but for anything else…?

]]> By: Janne http://whatjapanthinks.com/2010/04/18/paper-book-covers-should-be-sacrificed-for-the-environment/comment-page-1/#comment-227632 Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:09:23 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/?p=2589#comment-227632 Reusable chopsticks make a pretty substantial difference to waribashi. Most of the production cost for either is in getting and transporting the raw material (almost all of it imported). And while regular chopsticks need to be washed, they just go along for the ride when the plates, glasses, cups and so on are washed up; the extra resources for a pair of hashi is small.

Besides, you don’t think the waribashi are being washed as part of the manufacture?

The milk thing was apparently a silly wide-show school-lunch argument: drinking from the box saves a fair number of plastic straws (saving both a bit of money and energy); but is apparently teaching children bad manners according to opponents. If they’d really care about bad manners they’d insist on providing the children with drinking glasses, but that was apparently not part of the discussion brief. A storm in a milk carton in other words.

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