In a bid to halt the use of disposable chopsticks, various art installations have been sprouting up around China. Shanghai’s Disposable Wooden Chopstick Tree (shown above), was created by Chinese advertising agency DDB and the Environmental Protection Foundation, to highlight the estimated 45 billion pairs of disposable chopsticks used each year in China.
Disposable chopstick use results in the destruction of more than 23 million trees per year.
Another project by Greenpeace and advertising agency Ogilvy used more than 80,000 pairs of wooden chopsticks to create a Chopstick Forest in Beijing, China.
"Our project re-uses objects that would ordinarily have gone into the trash," explains artist Xu Yinhai of the project. "We hope that this chopsticks forest will help everyone realize that swathes of living forest are being destroyed every year to satisfy a careless and unnecessary dining habit."
Via Greenpeace & Treehugger
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