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Backlash from bubble-tea fans after China bans plastic straws in restaurants By Rebecca Kanthor
When China banned plastic straws in restaurants this year, bubble-tea fans were not happy.
When the Chinese government banned the use of disposable plastic in restaurants this year as part of its newest five-year plan, it unwittingly attracted criticism from a very vocal group bubble-tea drinkers.
That’s because when drinking bubble tea, the straw is essential. How else can you suck up all those chewy tapioca balls?
But customers were having none of it.
Paper straws are no good, said Xiao Cao, while sitting with his girlfriend at a trendy tea shop in Shanghai, drinking his daily cup of bubble tea. If you use them for too long they get all soggy. It affects the taste, he said.
China s Startling Food Waste: What Is Thrown Out Every Year Could Feed 200 Million People
02/05/13 AT 3:36 PM
While their North Korean allies are reportedly resorting to cannibalism as a result of famine, the Chinese have the opposite problem: They are wasting food.
Last year, researchers at China Agricultural University revealed shocking statistics on the country’s wasteful food habits. According to the study on 2,700 families in small, mid-size and large cities, the amount of food wasted on these tables in one year alone could feed 200 million people.
In university canteens, the study reported that one-third of the food purchased was wasted, enough to feed an additional 10 million people for one year, highlighting that the waste problem is not just among China’s rich and powerful, as many suspected.