Canoe made from Chopsticks

Hows this for an eco-concept? Shuhei Ogawara, a former city employee in Koriyama, Japan, built a four metre 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 three months gluing 7,382 chopsticks together into strips to form the canoe shell, to which he added a polyester resin coat.

Now if only people could use these instead of cars, then we’d reduce any oil crisis.

Via the PinkTentacle

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