Chopsticks for Biofuel
What I wondered when I first read the news Japan eyes chopsticks for biofuel was, you mean, they haven't been doing this already?
Japan's 127 million people use an average of 200 sets of wooden disposable chopsticks each year = 90,000 tons of wood.
Gee, I wonder what can be done with all that wood?
In the past, Japan made disposable chopsticks using timber from
thinning that would otherwise have been dumped.
Now, 90% of the countries chopsticks are imported from China - bamboo and aspen timber.
Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries is seeking a budget to study recycling the sticks by putting up collection boxes.
It sounds like a no brainer to me.
Japan wastes some 25 billion sets of chopsticks each year. China with ten times the population wastes 45 billion pairs.
That's an awful lot of wood that could be reused.
What do you think?
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