Canoe made from disposable chopsticks
source: http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/04/canoe-made-from-disposable-chopsticks/
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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.
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Callie2
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I've just been for a Chinese meal tonight do you think he wants any more chopsticks.
By the way richjm you should have built your shed out of coffee jars to make it waterproof ha good story though.
- 4 years ago
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Callie2
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seeker561
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Mr. Ogawara, I commend you. Truely a beautiful work of art and a fine statement on conservation and recycling.
- 4 years ago
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seeker561
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richjm
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Look at that thing! It's lovely.
I once started building a garden shed out of tea bags I'd pilfered from the office. All was going well until it rained. There just wasn't enough milk and sugar in the world that day.
- 4 years ago
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richjm
