Five years ago, Yuki Tatsumi started a curious quest to collect the origami figures made from chopstick sleeves that are regularly left behind by restaurant customers all across Japan. A fascinating ...

Yuki Tatsumi was waiting tables at an izakaya pub in Japan's Kyoto when something on the table caught his eye -- a chopstick wrapper folded and fiddled into an abstract shape. It was the catalyst for ...

Fast-food outlets should consider doing away with wrappers for chopsticks, dispensing sugar from common containers instead of individual packets and other ways to cut down on disposable waste, a ...

Turning a pair of disposable chopsticks into a training set is as easy and rolling up the paper wrapper and binding them with a rubber band—great for teaching yourself or friends how to use chopsticks ...

Our family rings in the new year with a feast of Chinese takeout food. Our kitchen table is littered with little cardboard containers, chopstick wrappers and paper fortune slips. I know the sweet and ...