Japan at this point has so much plastic for everything it's crazy. I know the residents "recycle" it (burn it) but it's still amazing to see everything individually wrapped multiple times, or things that don't need wrapped, wrapped again.
We also do the same. But until recently we first sold and shipped it to china. Both the plastic that could be recycled and the plastic that can’t be recycled.
This is a very small minority. The vast majority of japan uses a lot single use plastic. Each item being individually wrapped in most cases.
This doubles the workload of delivery drivers.
It's much better roughly everyone to just have people pay for plastic utensils.