Representative Bai Guangxin: To develop alternatives to disposable wooden chopsticks

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 8 (Reporters Lin Hui and Chen Weiwei) "Our country produces 80 billion pairs of disposable chopsticks every year, which is equivalent to cutting down 20 million trees that have grown for 20 years!" Bo Guangxin, chairman of Jilin Forest Industry Group Co., Ltd., shook his head repeatedly when he mentioned the waste of wood resources caused by disposable chopsticks.

According to Bai Guangxin, a tree that has grown for 20 years can only make 4,000 pairs of chopsticks. If each pair of chopsticks is 20 cm in length, 1 cm in width, and 0.5 cm in thickness, 80 billion pairs of chopsticks can cover 363 Tiananmen Square.

"In order to protect the ecological environment and forest resources, the relevant state departments have issued policies to restrict the production and use of some wooden disposable sanitary chopsticks." Bai Guangxin said, but due to my country's unique eating habits, the demand for disposable chopsticks is still Very big. "To solve the problem of waste of disposable chopsticks, I think that on the one hand, Chinese people should change their consumption habits and advocate bringing their own tableware, and restaurants should try not to provide disposable tableware. On the other hand, it is necessary to gradually develop alternative products for disposable wooden chopsticks." According to the new introduction, a company in Jilin has developed the technology of domesticating wild mugwort as a raw material to make disposable sanitary chopsticks. “If similar results can be transformed into actual productivity, it will be a chopstick revolution.” 

Replacement with herbal disposable chopsticks. Wooden chopsticks can greatly save forest resources and develop a low-carbon economy. At the same time, it has a great driving effect on the upstream and downstream industrial chain." Bai Guangxin said, suggesting that the state supports funds, production technology, equipment manufacturing, and research and development. The development of herbal disposable chopsticks industry protects precious forest resources.