In Japan, the government has announced plans to use the wooden chopsticks as biofuel. There are about 90,000 tons disposable chopsticks are discarded in Japan every year. Ethanol-producing plants in Osaka and Okayama are expected to start converting these oily choppers into wood pellet fuel soon. Interesting, this is the use of disposable chopsticks. What is next?

[via Tokyo Mango]