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squirell nutkin 08-14-2010 09:27 PM
Chopstick boat for choppy waters
 
Those Zany Japanese people

http://www.treehugger.com/chopsticks_canoe.jpg

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Shuhei Ogawara, a retired city hall employee in the Fukushima Prefecture, spent three months gluing 7382 used chopsticks into a 66 pound, 13'-4" canoe, and coated it with a polyester resin coat. I don't know if I would want to run it down the Nahanni, but it looks pretty good. Launch is planned for May at Lake Inawahiro
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008...chopsticks.php

ZenGum 08-14-2010 10:10 PM
"Hashi" can mean either chopstick, or bridge, depending on context. Guess this guy got confused about using it to cross water.

Japan gets through about 25 billion - yes, billion - sets of disposable chopsticks per year. That's about four per person per week.

HungLikeJesus 08-15-2010 01:23 AM
I'm pretty sure we've had this photo before in the Cellar.

Ah, here it is.

squirell nutkin 08-15-2010 07:54 AM
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Originally Posted by ZenGum (Post 676603)
"Hashi" can mean either chopstick, or bridge, depending on context. Guess this guy got confused about using it to cross water.

Japan gets through about 25 billion - yes, billion - sets of disposable chopsticks per year. That's about four per person per week.
25 billion / 7382 = 3,386,616 canoes. I wonder if the country is planning another sneaky, underhanded sea invasion? The evidence is damming

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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus (Post 676629)
I'm pretty sure we've had this photo before in the Cellar.

Ah, here it is.
Must have been during my leave of absence.

Lamplighter 08-15-2010 09:46 AM
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Originally Posted by squirell nutkin (Post 676654)
25 billion / 7382 = 3,386,616 canoes. I wonder if the country is planning another sneaky, underhanded sea invasion? The evidence is damming
Does someone have a conversion chart for the U.S. so we'll know how many toothpicks we'll need for our fleet of destroyers?

TheMercenary 08-15-2010 10:17 AM
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Originally Posted by ZenGum (Post 676603)
"Hashi" can mean either chopstick, or bridge, depending on context. Guess this guy got confused about using it to cross water.

Japan gets through about 25 billion - yes, billion - sets of disposable chopsticks per year. That's about four per person per week.
How many tree equiv. do they throw away each year?

Undertoad 08-15-2010 10:43 AM
Chopsticks are made from the Chop tree, and I understand the rare Chop forests are decimated.

jinx 08-15-2010 12:19 PM
I like the bamboo ones best.

squirell nutkin 08-15-2010 01:07 PM
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Originally Posted by TheMercenary (Post 676674)
How many tree equiv. do they throw away each year?
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006...g_your_own.php

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A Chinese blog claims that 45 billion pairs of disposable chopsticks are tossed out yearly in China, contributing to deforestation and mounds of unnecessary waste. The blog also claims that Japan has outlawed the cutting of bamboo for disposable chopsticks, so China has begun exporting large amounts to Japan. Stimuli for the spreading movement of bring-your-own culture is coming from different directions. One company boss even introduced a rule that all employees must bring their own sticks to the office—fining them if they don’t.
For more info on bring-your-own culture in the States, check out our friend Anna’s site, bringyourown.org. And if people have more leads on bring-your-own movements, please drop me a line.

xoxoxoBruce 08-15-2010 03:48 PM
I read some years ago, Japan was buying a shitload of Birch from Michigan and Minnesota, for chopsticks. Probably a more permanent kind than Bamboo.


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