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Old 08-14-2010, 09:27 PM   #1
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Chopstick boat for choppy waters

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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
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Old 08-14-2010, 10:10 PM   #2
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"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.
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Old 08-15-2010, 01:23 AM   #3
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I'm pretty sure we've had this photo before in the Cellar.

Ah, here it is.
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Old 08-15-2010, 07:54 AM   #4
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"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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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.
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Old 08-15-2010, 09:46 AM   #5
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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?
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Old 08-15-2010, 10:17 AM   #6
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"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?
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Old 08-15-2010, 10:43 AM   #7
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Chopsticks are made from the Chop tree, and I understand the rare Chop forests are decimated.
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Old 08-15-2010, 12:19 PM   #8
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I like the bamboo ones best.
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Old 08-15-2010, 01:07 PM   #9
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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.
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Old 08-15-2010, 03:48 PM   #10
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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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