Our 760-odd stores used 16 million sets of disposable chopsticks every year. It's not just the trees that have to be cut down, there's also a huge disposal problem.
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Kenji Horiuchi, who heads the environmental planning department for Osaka-based Marche Co, which operates Hakkenden and other restaurant chains. In 2006, Marche switched from disposable chopsticks to plastic non-disposable chopsticks. (Asahi Shimbun)
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kyoken
Plastic Chopsticks? What kind of sh.. restaurant is that.
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Speed
Good for them. Wish more restaurants follow suit.
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stirfry
how about trying to do something positive for the environment instead of always trying to destroy it..."japanese respect nature", what a load of crap
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LFRAgain
The Skylark chain of family restaurants has followed this trend, switching entirely over to re-usable plastic chopsticks. Bravo to them for that. Yoshinoya in my area has done the same. It just makes sense environmnetally and economically.
Umm... Stiryfry, I think that's whole the point of the quote: Osaka-based Marche Co. is doing something about it by switching over to reusable chopsticks.
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