What to do with used chopsticks

[KQ]

From chopsticks to chic home decor

At least 100,000 chopsticks are thrown out every day in Metro Vancouver restaurants.

Felix Böck, a forestry doctoral student at the University of British Columbia started ChopValue (https://chopvalue.ca) to turn recycled chopsticks into elegant home decor products.

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[sb]

Soaked in citronella oil thay can bee fire startrs that keep away zika.

[DJSapp]

Quick math on the nutty professor here:

Average weight of a pair of chopsticks: 0.05 lb/pair (math from https://www.walmart.com/ip/PAO-20-Pa...15055442#about)
Total daily weight of chopstick waste: 2,000 lbs
Total area of metro vancouver: 1,111 sq mi (the google)

Average density of chopstick waste: 1.8 lbs/sq mi

Amount of chemicals and energy necessary to collect, sanitize and re-purpose bamboo splinters: ???, but way more than the bamboo is worth. We're not exactly hurting in the world of bamboo production.

How about a waste management compost program? Then all of these restaurants can throw their hundreds of pounds of daily food waste away with the chopsticks in there instead of the trash? Sure restaurant waste is a problem, but this is just stupid.

[irul&ublo]

What to do with used chopsticks

[HansJob]

Makes a great roach clip.

[Dhelihiker]

Quick math on the nutty professor here:

Average weight of a pair of chopsticks: 0.05 lb/pair (math from https://www.walmart.com/ip/PAO-20-Pa...15055442#about)
Total daily weight of chopstick waste: 2,000 lbs
Total area of metro vancouver: 1,111 sq mi (the google)

Average density of chopstick waste: 1.8 lbs/sq mi

Amount of chemicals and energy necessary to collect, sanitize and re-purpose bamboo splinters: ???, but way more than the bamboo is worth. We're not exactly hurting in the world of bamboo production.

How about a waste management compost program? Then all of these restaurants can throw their hundreds of pounds of daily food waste away with the chopsticks in there instead of the trash? Sure restaurant waste is a problem, but this is just stupid.

How about a fucking fork

[iceman]

How about a fucking fork

Hard to argue with.

[DJSapp]

How about a fucking fork

[old goat]

Hard to argue with.

I use chopsticks because I eat Chinese food too fast with a fork. Ahh, that MSG high.

How about using the used chopsticks to hold together man buns??
http://www.wikihow.com/Put-Your-Hair-up-With-Chopsticks

[mcski]

Some food just tastes better w chopsticks. I love em.

Donate the used ones to 333 skis so he can improve his build materials.

[dunfree]

How about a fucking fork

Or you could use your own reusable chopsticks. Hell, you can reuse the disposables! OMG!

[Mazderati]

I'll tell you what you do. You take the fucking chopsticks out of your ears. NSFW. Not PC. Trigger warning(s).

[raisingarizona13]

We have reusable chop sticks but I only use them for cocktail stirring.

[stuckathuntermtn]

I use chopsticks because I eat Chinese food too fast with a fork. Ahh, that MSG high.

How about using the used chopsticks to hold together man buns??
http://www.wikihow.com/Put-Your-Hair-up-With-Chopsticks

Chopsticks can really help when you're starving and you don't want to eat too fast.
I usually just throw my used ones out, though.

[abraham]

I have a couple sets that aren't disposable. One with pointy tips, one with blunt tips. Maybe even those super long ones for cooking

[XXX-er]

Stick them in/thru your Manbun as hair accoutrements

[wicked_sick]

Vancouver already has a separate waste stream for organics. This guy is just creating actual garbage that will end up in a landfill.

I think this could be a cool research project for a kid, but it's pants on head retarded in any other context for many reasons that instantly come to mind. And people in Vancouver will probably love it.

Instead of making coasters out of compost, we need our Forestry PhDs to focus their efforts on adding value to the raw logs and shitty 2x4s that are sent all over the world at wholesale price. Our forest industry is struggling due to lack of innovation and this guy is making fancy crafts out of old bamboo

[Mr. Multiglisse]

Buddy in Japan built a canoe out of 7382 chopsticks:

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.

[~mikey b]

Fkna

[bigdude2468]

Remember bamboo which is a grass grows extraordinary fast. Some species grow as much as 3' per day although most grow about 3" per day. When you cut bamboo it keeps growing from the same "stump" so it is the ultimate renewable resource. I would say that investment in "recycling" of bamboo chopsticks would be money better spent elsewhere.

[sb]

Buddy in Japan built a canoe out of 7382 chopsticks:

That is pretty heavy for a boat 13' long but hey he did something kewl with dna and food stained bamboo.

[XXX-er]

Vancouver already has a separate waste stream for organics. This guy is just creating actual garbage that will end up in a landfill.

I think this could be a cool research project for a kid, but it's pants on head retarded in any other context for many reasons that instantly come to mind. And people in Vancouver will probably love it.

Instead of making coasters out of compost, we need our Forestry PhDs to focus their efforts on adding value to the raw logs and shitty 2x4s that are sent all over the world at wholesale price. Our forest industry is struggling due to lack of innovation and this guy is making fancy crafts out of old bamboo

no body gives a fuck about forestry and so they don't have much funding a UBC prof told me how he had to use his I-phone to do a sketchy confrence call in a classroom situation/during a lecture

And actualy I think you will find UNBC is where its at for forestry not UBC and you could get charged by a moose or eaten by a Bar on the UNBC campus