Author:tina

In Japan's major restaurants, canteen can be seen everywhere disposable chopsticks. Japan's annual disposable chopsticks consumption of about 25.7 billion pairs, per capita consumption of about 200 pairs. At the same time, Japan's domestic disposable chopsticks production accounted for only about 3%, and the remaining 97% are dependent on imports, which imports from China's disposable chopsticks accounted for 99% of total imports. That is to say, about 96% of Japan's disposable chopsticks come from China.

As early as the Edo period, the Japanese invented a disposable chopsticks suitable for Japanese eating habits. By 1990, Japan's domestic disposable chopsticks production reached 24 billion pairs. At the same time, since disposable chopsticks consume a lot of wood, Japan has set off a discussion about whether disposable chopsticks are destroying forest resources. Some manufacturers then turned their attention overseas.

Initially, Japan imported disposable chopsticks from China, South Africa, Indonesia and Canada. South Korea has also been a major importer of disposable chopsticks in Japan, but slowly, due to the increase in demand for disposable chopsticks in Korea, the depletion of timber resources and the fierce competition in international markets, South Korea has not only stopped Day exports, but also became a one-time import of chopsticks.

One of the chopsticks introduced to China is a Japanese businessman, a large number of Chinese exports to Japan disposable chopsticks is also a Japanese businessman. In the early 1990s, when some Japanese businessmen began to explore the processing base of overseas disposable chopsticks, a Japanese businessman first established a small factory in China's northeastern region to produce disposable chopsticks. This small factory is not the beginning of the direct use of China's timber production exported to Japan's disposable chopsticks, but the use of the Russian Siberian region imports of white birch for processing production. Later, to see profitable, not only a large number of Japanese businesses to enter China, a joint venture in China to set up factories in China, and even some of China's local enterprises have begun to convert disposable chopsticks. In this way, China's disposable chopsticks are exported to Japan at the same time, also began to spread in the country. The twentieth century, the eighties, began to have the use of renewable bamboo as raw materials to produce more environmentally friendly disposable chopsticks. With the strengthening of people's awareness of environmental protection, health awareness, one-time chopsticks have a rapid development. Disposable chopsticks share of 50%. There are more than the momentum of chopsticks.