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Canoe made from disposable chopsticks
07 Apr 2008
A former city employee in the Fukushima prefecture town of Koriyama has built a 4meter (13ft) long canoe fromthousands of used disposable chopsticks recovered from the city hall cafeteria. Bothered that perfectly good wood wasgoing to waste after a single use, Shuhei Ogawara whose job at city hall involved working with the local forestryindustry spent the last two years of his career collecting used chopsticks from the cafeteria. An experienced canoebuilder, Ogawara spent over 3 months gluing 7,382 chopsticks together into strips to form the canoe shell, to which headded a polyester resin coat. The canoe weighs about 30 kilograms (66 lbs), which is a bit heavier than an ordinary
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cedar canoe, but Ogawara is confident it will float. A launching ceremony is planned for May at nearby LakeInawashiro.
[Source: Asahi]
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2008.04.07 ::: 21:46 #
It is a nice idea to be worried about preventing the waste of waribashi�disposable chopsticks�millions ofdisposable chopsticks are thrown away after a singleuse.However, the fact is that this canoe uses much MORE toxic petroleum resin to hold together all the recycledchopsticks than a regular stripbuilt canoe. The final the environmental load/damage of this Japanese ecotrashcanoe is greater than just using strips of wood.
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dan plecha
2008.04.08 ::: 06:43 #
What's a better use for "toxic petroleum resin" than holding all those chopsticks?
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Aikyrie
2008.04.08 ::: 07:16 #
wow that's a great way to recycle
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Bob H
2008.04.08 ::: 09:11 #
Anyone else hungry besides me? Can't wait for the 747 fashioned from the paper wrappers.
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Neil Duckett
2008.04.08 ::: 12:26 #
Expert on Canoes there Taro? and TPR too by the sounds of things?!
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Sung Kim
2008.04.13 ::: 00:49 #
Who cares about the environmental impact, Taro... However you put it, it's totally badass.
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sharkface
2008.06.10 ::: 05:49 #
Look...there's no way around the fact that what this man has done is amazing and of course the environmentmatters. It is pointless to be sarcastic about the importance of the environment. It is extremely ignorant to think
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the environment does not matter, but it is the responsibility of the toxin manufacturers and politicians to getthese toxins out of circulation. I doubt anyone else is going to make a toxic canoe out of chopsticks. I agreeTaro was missing the point, but saying the environment doesn't matter could lead to believing it and no onefacing serious consequences of catastrophy will laugh when they or their family is suffering. Anyway I love thisboat and our friend here is amazing for building it.
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erik
2009.01.05 ::: 14:17 #
I want an electric guitar made out of chopsticks, surely this man can help....
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Lanie
2009.01.07 ::: 02:26 #
All modern canoes made of wood have some form of resin or epoxy used to seal them. So no matter what kindof wood the boat is made of they are going to use something to seal it.
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Dave
2009.01.30 ::: 02:59 #
Doubtful for this canoe to use any more resin than a cedar job made of similarly sized pieces. Thats not thepoint of the article though is it? Taking something people have thrown away, then making something out of it isthe point here.
Too many discarded chopsticks is my conclusion.
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Dimitri
2013.04.26 ::: 05:04 #
Polyester resins are not petroleum resins. This canoe and this idea are excellent.
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