Japanese Man Builds Canoe From Used Chopsticks

Jennifer Lance — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:02:11 +0000

Salvaging thousands of used disposable chopsticks from the Koriyama’s city hall cafeteria over two years, Shuhei Ogawara has built a 4-meter (13-ft) long canoe. It took three months for Ogawara to glue 7,382 chopsticks together to form the canoe shell.

Via: Pink Tentacle

Plausible Uses for your Everyday Junk!

Angelo S. — Sun, 18 May 2008 05:58:49 +0000

Living in the Western world, we Americans aren’t quite attuned to the disposal of used chopsticks. It simply isn’t that big of a problem, as we hurl food into our gaping maws with spiky metal shovels. Generally speaking, the only time we chop down forests in order to feed ourselves is when McDonald’s expands its beef production into the Amazon. The Chinese, our brothers and sisters across the great blue expanse, have an additional problem: chopsticks. They produce approximately 45 billion pairs a year, most of which being as disposable as a Uwe Boll movie. That amounts to about 25 million trees a year.

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Japanese Man Builds Canoe From Used Chopsticks

Plausible Uses for your Everyday Junk!