TOKYO - Walk into any Japanese noodle shop or restaurant and chances are you'll be eating with a pair of disposable wooden chopsticks from China. But not for long. In a move that has cheered ...

Environmentalists in China have a message to Olympic-goers in Beijing: Bring your own chopsticks. Some environmentalists say that disposable wooden chopsticks are contributing to deforestation.

BEIJING — The lowly eat-and-toss disposable wooden chopsticks are coming under fire in China as unfriendly to the environment. The head of the China Cuisine Association, Bian Jiang, was quoted Friday ...

China’s food delivery industry is searching for ways to make the sector more environmentally conscious, one order at a time. Beijing is increasingly engaging with international “hackathon” culture, ...

Faced with the spread of the coronavirus, the government is promoting using serving utensils, but resistance is strong. Sharing food with personal chopsticks is one way Chinese people express intimacy ...

While, to some people, chopsticks may seem like a fun alternative to a knife and fork, an estimated 33% of the world’s population use chopsticks to eat on a daily basis. Chopsticks are especially ...

Despite its persistent rural poverty, China is a country of new wealth. And of ancient traditions. And as international brands seek to make money off of China, sometimes things go awry. In ...