Surprise, surprise....did you know that most chopsticks are made in the United States, not China? Sort of weird, but true. Believe it or not, even most of the chopsticks used in China, Japan and South Korea are also made in the U.S. This is mainly due to a developing lack of natural resources in many of these Asian countries. Currently, there is a factory in Americus, Georgia that is making over ten million sets of chopsticks a week that are exported to Asia! The wood of choice comes from poplar and sweet gum trees, which grow in abundance in Georgia. Very few new trees are harvested in this process as most are made from scraps obtained from nearby lumber and paper mills, but of course the environmental downside is the fact that once the chopsticks are made they are shipped half way around the world.
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