Bored Japanese Guy + Recycled Chopsticks = Awesome Green Canoe

Shuhei Ogawara, a city hall forestry employee in Fukushima, Japan must have looked around the lunchroom in dismay at all the wasted-single use wooden chopsticks discarded so callously after poking through rice and picking up sashimi.

And then, inspiration struck. Why not build a canoe out of all those chopsticks? What would have been a weird, sort of random idea for most of us came as second nature to Ogawara who also happened to be a canoe-maker (go figure). So anyway, he saved up a boat-load (hahaha!) of chopsticks and built him a canoe. We commend him for his recycling efforts but even more so for his awesome waste of time and extra potentially toxic polyester resin needed to glue all those little sticks together. Where is anime porn when a man needs it?

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