Why doesn't the US use more rice paper packaging?
Japan has had rice paper wrapping that dissolves in your mouth when you eat the candy for decades. Why isn’t the US doing using it instead of individual plastic wrappers?
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Same reason Americans no longer use re-usable grocery bags. It might have one of those creepy Asian viruses on it
Even pre-COVID they have a decade plus on us though. Think of the food plastic we accumulate in a decade, it seems to be a no-brainer for every country.
Perhaps if the rice lobby was as powerful as the oil and lumber lobbies in this country…
The US doesn’t grow that much rice. It would upset the wood/paper market.
Have you ever tried to eat that rice paper? This is why.
@ARE_you_kidding_me haha I have, but l I would hope that prioritizing the environment and landfills and oceans would help the initial dryness of the rice paper wrap.
But even if you threw them outside to dissolve naturally, think of how much trash that would save our planet.
@KNOWITALL “Is it a money thing really?”
Yes and no. My response was slightly tongue-in-cheek. But yeah, rice just isn’t a big crop here in the US. If it were then you would definitely much more use of it for things like paper. As it is there just aren’t many areas in the US suited for growing rice. And where it is cultivated it requires huge amounts of water in order to grow the crop. Much more so than other grains, like wheat. It’s much better suited for cultivation in areas like south Asia, where there are a lot of river basins and which tend to experience seasonal deluges.
@KNOWITALL A money thing, a employment thing, yes. Also a availability thing. There is more wood pulp being produced that rice pulp. Much, much more.
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