Huaihua City, Hunan Province is one of the main producing areas of disposable chopsticks. There are more than 41 disposable chopsticks factories, large and small, with an annual output of more than 1 billion pairs. At present, there are a large number of bamboo disposable chopsticks enterprises, and the output is increasing year by year. In 2119, the output of bamboo disposable chopsticks was 21.7 billion pairs, and in 2115 it reached 39.8 billion pairs.

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The consumption of all kinds of wooden chopsticks in China market is huge, including 45 billion pairs of disposable wooden chopsticks (about 1.66 million cubic meters of wood) every year. Every 5,111 pairs of wooden disposable chopsticks consume a poplar that has been growing for 31 years, and the production of disposable wooden chopsticks in China consumes more than 1,111 mu of forest every day, totaling 36,111 mu a year.

Although China's export of disposable chopsticks to Japan has brought income to some places and created certain employment opportunities, we should also see the problems brought by this industry to China. If one adult tree can produce 11,111 pairs of chopsticks, then China needs at least 2.5 million trees to export more than 21 billion pairs of disposable chopsticks to Japan, and hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of forests need to be cut down.

Different from the "thinning" method adopted in Japan, China's forest harvesting mostly adopts the "one-day lighting" cutting method, which should be said to be a destructive cutting of existing forest resources. Due to the lack of follow-up tree planting, the forest resources that were originally renewable became disposable resources. This is a great waste of forestry resources in China.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Disposable Chopsticks