China is Addicted to Disposable Chopsticks? by Robey

China has quite the addiction. No it is not anything harmful right at this moment, but in the near future it could be fatal. China is addicted to disposable chopsticks. They cut up to 1.18 million square acres of trees a year. That is a ton of trees on that piece of land. Each tree can produce about 4,000 chopsticks, totally out to be about 80 billions chopsticks a year, being produced. 80 billions chopsticks is a massive amount of chopsticks, it is almost unreal. The people of China have started a program to reuse the disposable chopsticks and turn them into chopstick trees that they put up around their towns.

 The government has also had their own plan of stopping the companies that make the chopsticks. They put a massive ta on chopsticks and wooden floorboards, both of which destroy lots and lots of the local forests.  This is kind of working but it is effecting the population negatively, because the price of the chopsticks is going up. There forest in is a lot of danger because of this wood consumption needed to make the chopsticks and wooden floorboards.

          How would you go about fixing the tree problems?

          Is there any way to replace the disposable chopsticks and floorboards?

          How long do you think it will take before China is out of forests and trees?