Billions of single-use chopsticks are consumed annually, and it takes around 25 million trees and bamboo plants to make that happen. Sad. But there is life after use for so-called single-use chopsticks.
Introducing the Chopstick Folding Basket, available at Taraluna, home of Fair Trade items.

The chopsticks used in this basket are collected from restaurants and sanitized at high temperatures and pressure. It’s a great way to reuse something otherwise considered trash.
What do you think of the chopstick basket?
(Image via Taraluna)

Last year, we covered Chopstick Reuse for Knitters, Chopstick Soap Dish and the Chopstick Purse.
But there’s more going on in the world of chopstick reuse.
Look at the chopstick bowl to the right. I found it on flickr via idogcow. If you know how to make this, please do tell.
Then there’s the canoe that Shuhei Ogawara made from gluing 7,382 chopsticks together! Go see it at pink tentacle.
Readers at How can I Recycle This? came up with come great ideas on chopstick reuse. One reader suggested using them to hold up early seedlings in the garden. …read more

Noreen from Hankering for Yarn has an innovative use for has-been chopsticks. And it’s a use that keeps giving.
For inexpensive knitting needles, she suggests honing cleaned wooden chopsticks.

Go to Noreen’s post, Knit your noodles with free needles, for more details and photos.
Image via Noreen Crone-Findlay.