Chopsticks are a massive waste problem. This company recycles them.

Across the globe, we humans throw away more than 80 billion pairs of chopsticks every year. AtlasObscura explains:

For more than 5,000 years, chopsticks have been the preferred dining utensil of a sizable swath of humanity. Nowadays, around a third of the global population uses chopsticks daily. — Read the rest