Recycycling Ingenuity

[DaninVan]

I had no idea this was happening up here...

The Banana fibre piece is also excellent; i see a future there for products similar to the sugar cane waste board manufacturing, and perhaps paper as well.

[Nickp]

What a phenomenal idea...I wonder how much the processing equipment set them back...

[Herb Stoops]

Here I always thought they just rinsed them off and reused them, at least wiped them off, or maybe licked them off..........or what the heck just put them on the next plate..

[Cherryville Chuck]

It's great to see them recycled. Saves waste and puts some people to work. Some of the products were pretty neat.

[old55]

What an ingenious idea.

[HandyDan]

I like seeing that. I was surprised to see that many chopsticks being used each day. I'm not a fan of Chinese food.

[Herb Stoops]

That video confirms the fact that Bambo products have a lot of resin in them that is tough on bits and blades. I have one of those boards long grain and love it, easy to clean, and doesn't absorb anything.
Herb

[DaninVan]

The Canadian domestically produced chopsticks are mostly softwood, although I believe there's competition from back East with Birch and Maple chopsticks.
Pretty sure the hardwood type are re-usable, not the one-time use variety.
https://www.cbc.ca/archives/the-great-c ... -1.5199040
Mind you, that link is about 35 yrs. old now. This whole Covid lockdown thing must be wrecking a lot of business plans.

[Cherryville Chuck]

There was a company up in Ft. Nelson, BC (as in way the hell up north) that was making chopsticks out of poplar. I logged up there one winter and the poplar are big and tall. That was back in the 80s. Poplar was a species of choice because of being easy to machine and zero resin in the wood you might taste. I don't know how long they lasted but I know they aren't still in business. I suppose spruce might work too. Neither of those would be very good for reman into some of the products I saw. Bamboo on the other hand is quite tough. I put down an engineered bamboo T & G floor in my living room and it's 10% tougher than oak is. And like Herb said it's tough on blades. The miter blade I was using was pretty done for by the time I was finished. Some of that might have been the finish on it too. Some of the finishes on flooring I've heard are aluminum oxide based which is hard stuff.The stones in school rings are made from aluminum oxide.

[Herb Stoops]

My Dad used to tell me the story about the aborigines in the Philippines during the WWI where he was stationed used to have these up risings and they made an armor out of bamboo and a shield too,and get all juiced up on betele nut and use machetes to go into villages and wipe out the population. He said that a rifle bullets wouldn't go through their bamboo and stop them.
HErb