Will disposable wooden cutlery really damage the environment?
I don’t know if you have noticed that when you go to KFC to order food, the disposable spoons provided in the store are all made of wood? Due to the restricted plastic order, the catering industry in various cities prohibits the use of non-degradable disposable plastic straws, and catering services prohibit the use of non-degradable disposable plastic tableware. So KFC can no longer provide customers with plastic spoons. Some friends may have questions. Plastic is indeed not environmentally friendly. Is it environmentally friendly to use disposable wooden cutlery? The following editor will answer your questions.
In fact, the wood consumed by disposable wooden cutlery is similar to fast-growing trees such as birch and poplar. The wood consumed due to the use of disposable wooden cutlery is actually less than a fraction of the stock of standing wood. For example, China currently uses about 45 billion pairs of disposable wooden chopsticks, and consumes 1.66 million cubic meters of wood. Generally speaking, a fast-growing poplar tree that has grown for 5 years can provide 0.3 cubic meters of wood. And one mu of woodland can usually plant 30 fast-growing poplar trees. So on average, 1 mu of forest land can provide about 1.8 cubic meters of wood per year. In this way, to provide 1.66 million cubic meters of wood, about 922,200 acres of land is needed. Even if we account for losses or reduced production due to poor management and other factors, doubling the planting area will require 1.84 million mu of forest land. At present, the total area of poplar trees in China has reached more than 10.1 million hectares, or 151.5 million acres. The 1.84 million mu is just a fraction of the fraction. According to a report by People's Daily Online, in a certain county in Jiangsu alone, there are more than 600,000 mu of forests in the whole county, with a storage volume of 6 million cubic meters of standing trees. 1.66 million cubic meters may seem like a scary figure, but in fact it is just a tip of the plantation.
For the disposable wooden cutlery we use every day, the source of the wood is not from cutting old trees in the deep mountains and old forests, but from artificially planted trees. Moreover, the trees absorb carbon dioxide and fix the carbon in the wood. Then we use these shaped trees to make disposable wooden cutlery, and at the same time plant a new crop of trees. As long as the process is properly deployed, it will not damage the environment or endanger the environment. It may even contribute to environmental protection.
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