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Coffee Stir Sticks |
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By Miroslav B. Bonchev
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I like to have a cup of coffee in the morning and another after lunch. I like it with a bit of sugar, so naturally I use something to stir it. In your average coffee shop,
this tends to be a wooden stir stick. Sometimes I would grab more stir sticks than needed - "just in case". A few days ago I had an insight. I was playing with my stir stick
and I notice that it is very strong. This made me think about it, and I realized that the depth of a stir stick is approximately the same as that of a matchstick and its total
size is that of about 25 matchsticks. My next thought shocked me - for the two cups of coffee I have every day I use as much timber as if I burn a whole safety match with its
50 sticks in it.
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I could not find information about the world’s production of wooden stir sticks, but based on the data for production of safety matches and some
elementary mathematics, I could deduce that the numbers are staggering. The world produces and uses so many safety matches every second that a
large timber tree is burned every five seconds. The problem is that one uses the same amount of timber as if they burn a whole match every day by just drinking
two cups of coffee, if they use wooden stir sticks.
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What is the alternative? Well, one alternative is to carry your own teaspoon with you all the time, which I think is very considerate but probably pretty unlikely. More coffee shops could offer
actual cutlery when serving coffee; they already have to wash cups and plates, so a few spoons extra should not make much difference. Using a plastic straw is another alternative. As it turns out,
using a plastic straw to drink coffee can also help to protect your teeth and keep them white. Finally, not using sugar at all is perhaps the best option!
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Miroslav B. Bonchev
July 2008
London, England
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