From the ridiculous to the sublime …
Dennis or Melvyn could probably do this too although they’d better start collecting the chopsticks now! Perhaps I should give Green Bento Company (those working in Kuching should check out Green Bento Company for delivery of their fresh and healthy lunches) a call to see if they can start saving them up for Dennis …
A beautiful canoe made from 7,000 disposable chopsticks. I can’t even make a tooth pick from one!
I came across this interesting story here and if you can read Japanese, you can check this out here. So here goes:-
“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.”
Amazing and admirable.
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Awesome!!!!