Canoe made from disposable chopsticks
A former city employee in the Fukushima prefecture town of Koriyama has built a 4-meter (13-ft) long canoe from thousands of used disposable chopsticks recovered from the city hall cafeteria. Bothered that perfectly good wood was going to waste after a single use, Shuhei Ogawara — whose job at city hall involved working with the local forestry industry — spent the last two years of his career collecting used chopsticks from the cafeteria. An experienced canoe builder, Ogawara spent over 3 months gluing 7,382 chopsticks together into strips to form the canoe shell, to which he added a polyester resin coat. The canoe weighs about 30 kilograms (66 lbs), which is a bit heavier than an ordinary cedar canoe, but Ogawara is confident it will float. A launching ceremony is planned for May at nearby Lake Inawashiro.
[Source: Asahi]
It is a nice idea to be worried about preventing the waste of waribashi—disposable chopsticks—millions of disposable chopsticks are thrown away after a single-use.
However, the fact is that this canoe uses much MORE toxic petroleum resin to hold together all the recycled chopsticks than a regular strip-built canoe. The final the environmental load/damage of this Japanese eco-trash canoe is greater than just using strips of wood.
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What’s a better use for “toxic petroleum resin” than holding all those chopsticks?
wow that’s a great way to recycle
Anyone else hungry besides me? Can’t wait for the 747 fashioned from the paper wrappers.
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