Comments on: Plausible Uses for your Everyday Junk! http://craftingagreenworld.com/2008/05/17/plausible-uses-for-your-everyday-junk/ DIY for Environmentalists: Crafting, Making, Project How-to's, and more! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:37:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Summer http://craftingagreenworld.com/2008/05/17/plausible-uses-for-your-everyday-junk/comment-page-1/#comment-3075 Summer Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:41:46 +0000 http://craftingagreenworld.com/2008/05/17/plausible-uses-for-your-everyday-junk/#comment-3075 Bamboo chopsticks can be reused at home, but health codes prevent them from being reused in restaurants. They sometimes use plastic ones which can be put through the dishwasher, but bamboo is still the choice for takeout. My MIL brought a bunch of metal travel chopsticks back from China and distributed them to us. Some of them are collapsable (like a radio antenna) and fit in a little case that can be used as a key chain. Others have two longer pieces that are screwed together and fit in a little case about the size of reading glasses. So, the solution is out there. I still end up with the bamboo ones from time to time and save them compulsively. Sometimes I use them for small plant stakes because I don't have enough for a boat. Danny Seo made a little easel with them to hold a postcard in Country Home March 2007. But why stop here? Disposable cutlery is a problem in the US too, and it's not as biodegradable (You may be able to recycle it in some areas.) I've seen chandeliers and the like made from plastic spoons, but they're generally made from newly purchased boxes. I'd like to see someone make something out of the ones that actually get used (ie. don't match). Then again, maybe it's better we just cut down using those. Bamboo chopsticks can be reused at home, but health codes prevent them from being reused in restaurants. They sometimes use plastic ones which can be put through the dishwasher, but bamboo is still the choice for takeout.

My MIL brought a bunch of metal travel chopsticks back from China and distributed them to us. Some of them are collapsable (like a radio antenna) and fit in a little case that can be used as a key chain. Others have two longer pieces that are screwed together and fit in a little case about the size of reading glasses. So, the solution is out there.

I still end up with the bamboo ones from time to time and save them compulsively. Sometimes I use them for small plant stakes because I don’t have enough for a boat. Danny Seo made a little easel with them to hold a postcard in Country Home March 2007.

But why stop here? Disposable cutlery is a problem in the US too, and it’s not as biodegradable (You may be able to recycle it in some areas.) I’ve seen chandeliers and the like made from plastic spoons, but they’re generally made from newly purchased boxes. I’d like to see someone make something out of the ones that actually get used (ie. don’t match). Then again, maybe it’s better we just cut down using those.

]]> By: Summer http://craftingagreenworld.com/2008/05/17/plausible-uses-for-your-everyday-junk/comment-page-1/#comment-107087 Summer Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:41:00 +0000 http://craftingagreenworld.com/2008/05/17/plausible-uses-for-your-everyday-junk/#comment-107087 Bamboo chopsticks can be reused at home, but health codes prevent them from being reused in restaurants. They sometimes use plastic ones which can be put through the dishwasher, but bamboo is still the choice for takeout. My MIL brought a bunch of metal travel chopsticks back from China and distributed them to us. Some of them are collapsable (like a radio antenna) and fit in a little case that can be used as a key chain. Others have two longer pieces that are screwed together and fit in a little case about the size of reading glasses. So, the solution is out there. I still end up with the bamboo ones from time to time and save them compulsively. Sometimes I use them for small plant stakes because I don't have enough for a boat. Danny Seo made a little easel with them to hold a postcard in Country Home March 2007. But why stop here? Disposable cutlery is a problem in the US too, and it's not as biodegradable (You may be able to recycle it in some areas.) I've seen chandeliers and the like made from plastic spoons, but they're generally made from newly purchased boxes. I'd like to see someone make something out of the ones that actually get used (ie. don't match). Then again, maybe it's better we just cut down using those. Bamboo chopsticks can be reused at home, but health codes prevent them from being reused in restaurants. They sometimes use plastic ones which can be put through the dishwasher, but bamboo is still the choice for takeout.

My MIL brought a bunch of metal travel chopsticks back from China and distributed them to us. Some of them are collapsable (like a radio antenna) and fit in a little case that can be used as a key chain. Others have two longer pieces that are screwed together and fit in a little case about the size of reading glasses. So, the solution is out there.

I still end up with the bamboo ones from time to time and save them compulsively. Sometimes I use them for small plant stakes because I don’t have enough for a boat. Danny Seo made a little easel with them to hold a postcard in Country Home March 2007.

But why stop here? Disposable cutlery is a problem in the US too, and it’s not as biodegradable (You may be able to recycle it in some areas.) I’ve seen chandeliers and the like made from plastic spoons, but they’re generally made from newly purchased boxes. I’d like to see someone make something out of the ones that actually get used (ie. don’t match). Then again, maybe it’s better we just cut down using those.

]]> By: Summer http://craftingagreenworld.com/2008/05/17/plausible-uses-for-your-everyday-junk/comment-page-1/#comment-108661 Summer Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:41:00 +0000 http://craftingagreenworld.com/2008/05/17/plausible-uses-for-your-everyday-junk/#comment-108661 Bamboo chopsticks can be reused at home, but health codes prevent them from being reused in restaurants. They sometimes use plastic ones which can be put through the dishwasher, but bamboo is still the choice for takeout. My MIL brought a bunch of metal travel chopsticks back from China and distributed them to us. Some of them are collapsable (like a radio antenna) and fit in a little case that can be used as a key chain. Others have two longer pieces that are screwed together and fit in a little case about the size of reading glasses. So, the solution is out there. I still end up with the bamboo ones from time to time and save them compulsively. Sometimes I use them for small plant stakes because I don't have enough for a boat. Danny Seo made a little easel with them to hold a postcard in Country Home March 2007. But why stop here? Disposable cutlery is a problem in the US too, and it's not as biodegradable (You may be able to recycle it in some areas.) I've seen chandeliers and the like made from plastic spoons, but they're generally made from newly purchased boxes. I'd like to see someone make something out of the ones that actually get used (ie. don't match). Then again, maybe it's better we just cut down using those. Bamboo chopsticks can be reused at home, but health codes prevent them from being reused in restaurants. They sometimes use plastic ones which can be put through the dishwasher, but bamboo is still the choice for takeout.

My MIL brought a bunch of metal travel chopsticks back from China and distributed them to us. Some of them are collapsable (like a radio antenna) and fit in a little case that can be used as a key chain. Others have two longer pieces that are screwed together and fit in a little case about the size of reading glasses. So, the solution is out there.

I still end up with the bamboo ones from time to time and save them compulsively. Sometimes I use them for small plant stakes because I don’t have enough for a boat. Danny Seo made a little easel with them to hold a postcard in Country Home March 2007.

But why stop here? Disposable cutlery is a problem in the US too, and it’s not as biodegradable (You may be able to recycle it in some areas.) I’ve seen chandeliers and the like made from plastic spoons, but they’re generally made from newly purchased boxes. I’d like to see someone make something out of the ones that actually get used (ie. don’t match). Then again, maybe it’s better we just cut down using those.

]]> By: Jacklyn http://craftingagreenworld.com/2008/05/17/plausible-uses-for-your-everyday-junk/comment-page-1/#comment-2494 Jacklyn Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:18:38 +0000 http://craftingagreenworld.com/2008/05/17/plausible-uses-for-your-everyday-junk/#comment-2494 I am speaking as a chinese point of view, using chopsticks is an unique culture and good to maintain it. However, it is time to think it seriously on disposal chopsticks's impact onto environment. Increasing prices for chopsticks do not bring much influence unless peoples are realized why we can't use disposal chopsticks. Education and government roles are mostly important to alert public on this issue. I am speaking as a chinese point of view, using chopsticks is an unique culture and good to maintain it. However, it is time to think it seriously on disposal chopsticks’s impact onto environment. Increasing prices for chopsticks do not bring much influence unless peoples are realized why we can’t use disposal chopsticks. Education and government roles are mostly important to alert public on this issue.

]]> By: Jacklyn http://craftingagreenworld.com/2008/05/17/plausible-uses-for-your-everyday-junk/comment-page-1/#comment-107086 Jacklyn Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:18:00 +0000 http://craftingagreenworld.com/2008/05/17/plausible-uses-for-your-everyday-junk/#comment-107086 I am speaking as a chinese point of view, using chopsticks is an unique culture and good to maintain it. However, it is time to think it seriously on disposal chopsticks's impact onto environment. Increasing prices for chopsticks do not bring much influence unless peoples are realized why we can't use disposal chopsticks. Education and government roles are mostly important to alert public on this issue. I am speaking as a chinese point of view, using chopsticks is an unique culture and good to maintain it. However, it is time to think it seriously on disposal chopsticks’s impact onto environment. Increasing prices for chopsticks do not bring much influence unless peoples are realized why we can’t use disposal chopsticks. Education and government roles are mostly important to alert public on this issue.

]]> By: Jacklyn http://craftingagreenworld.com/2008/05/17/plausible-uses-for-your-everyday-junk/comment-page-1/#comment-108660 Jacklyn Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:18:00 +0000 http://craftingagreenworld.com/2008/05/17/plausible-uses-for-your-everyday-junk/#comment-108660 I am speaking as a chinese point of view, using chopsticks is an unique culture and good to maintain it. However, it is time to think it seriously on disposal chopsticks's impact onto environment. Increasing prices for chopsticks do not bring much influence unless peoples are realized why we can't use disposal chopsticks. Education and government roles are mostly important to alert public on this issue. I am speaking as a chinese point of view, using chopsticks is an unique culture and good to maintain it. However, it is time to think it seriously on disposal chopsticks’s impact onto environment. Increasing prices for chopsticks do not bring much influence unless peoples are realized why we can’t use disposal chopsticks. Education and government roles are mostly important to alert public on this issue.

]]> By: Kate http://craftingagreenworld.com/2008/05/17/plausible-uses-for-your-everyday-junk/comment-page-1/#comment-1509 Kate Thu, 29 May 2008 23:33:36 +0000 http://craftingagreenworld.com/2008/05/17/plausible-uses-for-your-everyday-junk/#comment-1509 Don't we just need culture change, ie wash them, and use again (for eating)? and again and again....or if not there's always mulching/composting for those made of bamboo...while reusing for craft is a great idea and I'm sure will produce some fantastic results, when the scale of use/disposal is this huge I think we need some large scale solutions too.. Don’t we just need culture change, ie wash them, and use again (for eating)? and again and again….or if not there’s always mulching/composting for those made of bamboo…while reusing for craft is a great idea and I’m sure will produce some fantastic results, when the scale of use/disposal is this huge I think we need some large scale solutions too..

]]> By: Kate http://craftingagreenworld.com/2008/05/17/plausible-uses-for-your-everyday-junk/comment-page-1/#comment-107085 Kate Thu, 29 May 2008 23:33:00 +0000 http://craftingagreenworld.com/2008/05/17/plausible-uses-for-your-everyday-junk/#comment-107085 Don't we just need culture change, ie wash them, and use again (for eating)? and again and again....or if not there's always mulching/composting for those made of bamboo...while reusing for craft is a great idea and I'm sure will produce some fantastic results, when the scale of use/disposal is this huge I think we need some large scale solutions too.. Don’t we just need culture change, ie wash them, and use again (for eating)? and again and again….or if not there’s always mulching/composting for those made of bamboo…while reusing for craft is a great idea and I’m sure will produce some fantastic results, when the scale of use/disposal is this huge I think we need some large scale solutions too..

]]> By: Kate http://craftingagreenworld.com/2008/05/17/plausible-uses-for-your-everyday-junk/comment-page-1/#comment-108659 Kate Thu, 29 May 2008 23:33:00 +0000 http://craftingagreenworld.com/2008/05/17/plausible-uses-for-your-everyday-junk/#comment-108659 Don't we just need culture change, ie wash them, and use again (for eating)? and again and again....or if not there's always mulching/composting for those made of bamboo...while reusing for craft is a great idea and I'm sure will produce some fantastic results, when the scale of use/disposal is this huge I think we need some large scale solutions too.. Don’t we just need culture change, ie wash them, and use again (for eating)? and again and again….or if not there’s always mulching/composting for those made of bamboo…while reusing for craft is a great idea and I’m sure will produce some fantastic results, when the scale of use/disposal is this huge I think we need some large scale solutions too..

]]> By: Leslie Richard http://craftingagreenworld.com/2008/05/17/plausible-uses-for-your-everyday-junk/comment-page-1/#comment-1392 Leslie Richard Sun, 18 May 2008 16:29:24 +0000 http://craftingagreenworld.com/2008/05/17/plausible-uses-for-your-everyday-junk/#comment-1392 Hey Angelo! I found this cool chopstick purse & chopstick wrapper wallet on Etsy ! http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=5153260 Looks so super cute and easy to make. Maybe not as impressive as a boat, but every little idea counts! Hey Angelo!
I found this cool chopstick purse & chopstick wrapper wallet on Etsy ! http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=5153260
Looks so super cute and easy to make. Maybe not as impressive as a boat, but every little idea counts!

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