Comments on: How can I reuse or recycle … unwanted chopsticks?

By: addy

addy — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:20:12 +0000

if you have kids, you can find a whole bunch of uses for them like flag poles on sand castles or you could paint them and use them as stems for tissue paper flowers or glue feathers on the non-pointy end and they can be pretend arrows!

By: nikke121

nikke121 — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:50:07 +0000

Make a soapdish!

http://itsagreengreengreengreenworld.blogspot.com/2008/03/dishing-about-soap.html

By: Kurt Cullen

Kurt Cullen — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:52:40 +0000

Check out University of Hawaii of Manoa: Entrepreneurs Club Chopstick Challenge on youtube for a solution to recycling chopsticks.

By: Kurt Cullen

Kurt Cullen — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:49:21 +0000

By: PainChaud

PainChaud — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:04:49 +0000

I have used them in replacement of nails in some tables I made….drilling hole then puting some glue in it and breaking a stick in it.

By: Bad Monkey

Bad Monkey — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 14:42:46 +0000

I have used these to start fires using them as kindling,they catch well instead of buying expensive fire lighters or when there is lack of other easily available kindling.

By: David Kichi

David Kichi — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:02:33 +0000

Give it away by asking friends or put it online and I’m sure somebody will take it off your hands and find a use for them. Ultimately, you should use chopsticks to eat Asian food which makes it taste better. There are plenty of Americans nowadays who are masters of the chopstick unlike Tom Selleck’s character in Mr.Baseball who doesn’t eat “BAIT!”. Fast forward to 2008 and eating Bait is cool and healthy.

By: Jlyne Hanback

Jlyne Hanback — Fri, 09 May 2008 06:10:25 +0000

Before using them in your hair, you can paint them, glue jewels to them, etc. to decorate them and then they make very pretty hair ornaments.

By: nancy

nancy — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:56:02 +0000

this comment is not meant to be mean, learn how to use them! I lived in Korea for a year, and now I cannot eat oriental food without chopsticks. It is easier, you get a smaller bite sized portion, and it is neater.

By: melody

melody — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 07:34:47 +0000

I use them to keep my hair up in a twist. It looks pretty and it holds well enough if you do it right. Just twist your hair up and weave the stick through.

By: Sordale

Sordale — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 18:11:29 +0000

Ok, lame one, but still :) I keep one or two at work to scratch my back if the need arise :)

By: paperlady

paperlady — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 03:03:16 +0000

I recently used the sharper end of a chop stick to clean out the crevices inside my coffeemaker, even taped a toothpick to the end and cleaned the tinier areas and wrapped a paper towel around the end to mop up what I had removed. So save a couple for cleaning crevices!

By: Wen Rou

Wen Rou — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 01:35:38 +0000

You can make this centerpiece:
http://www.thwartdesign.com/progresspg/withoutpg/dwor_bowl.html

By: Frannie

Frannie — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 13:39:09 +0000

If you have lots and lots of them, you can get ideas from this dude who makes incredible home decor with used (and sanitized!) chopsticks from take-out Chinese restaurants: http://www.chopstickart.com/products.htm

By: Crafty Green Poet

Crafty Green Poet — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:09:02 +0000

How about making them into photo frames. Gluing them together in a similar way as already described for making placemats in whichever shape you want

By: Delusion

Delusion — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:21:53 +0000

There are crafty things you can do, like lay them out into a “star” or “wreath” design, use craft wire to bind them were two chopsticks meet.

Once you have this frame, it can be decorated with anything from wool, to tinsel to wire… Use them as Xmas decorations or wall mounted art :)

By: Shabnam

Shabnam — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:03:41 +0000

It seems that you have quite a collection of new chopsticks: so you can make placemats.
Lay chopstick on the table, place a chopstick side by side but upside down (in French we call it tête bêche, the head touches the foot), and then keep on alternating till you get the size of place mat you want.

Choose a nice string and then knot the chop sticks one to the other (you want to make the string go over a chopstick, then under the next one, till the end of the row and back to the starting position).

Sounds complicated, but I don’t have any chopsticks to do it to show you (sorry)! (I take my own topperware to the Chinese anyway and they fill them up for me and tell them not to give me the chopsticks since I have some nice ones at home).

By: Anita

Anita — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:15:44 +0000

They are great to use if you’re learning to knit, just make sure you sand off any little splinters, the stitches stay on better than conventional metal knitting needles.And it is especially helpful when using extra smooth yarns!

By: Eigon

Eigon — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:00:04 +0000

They can be used as the centre of a drop spindle – you then add a disc towards one end, which can be of wood, or a toy wheel, or a CD, or one of those quick drying clays you can get for craft work.

By: Tammy

Tammy — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:37:30 +0000

I use them to hold up early seedlings in my garden and for mixing small cans of paint (where the tradition stir sticks are just too large for the job).

By: Ashley

Ashley — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:16:35 +0000

Stick them in your hair.