# This Startup Is Transforming Used Chopsticks Into Beautiful Furniture

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/this-startup-is-transforming-used-chopsticks-into-beautiful-furniture/
- Published: 2022-03-02T09:30:11-06:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Photo: Sorting chopsticks. Courtesy of ChopValue. Article by Diana Hubbell. Atlas Obscura – February 25, 2022. Humans throw out more than 80 billion pairs a year. For more than 5,000 years, chopsticks have been the preferred dining utensil of a sizable swath of humanity. Nowadays, around a third of the global population uses chopsticks daily. This is both a fact of life and, given these implements are often single-use, a serious environmental problem. […] Click here to view original web page at www.atlasobscura.com