As we here in America use forks and knives daily the Japanese use Chopsticks to eat their daily meals. Well one Japanese man, called Shuhei Ogawara, realized that after being used the chopsticks are simply thrown away. He has collecting Chopsticks from Koriyama’s city hall cafeteria for over 2 years accumulating a total of 7,382 chopsticks. With all of these he glued them together to build a 13 foot long canoe. This took him three months to complete and has turned out very nice.

Everyday people are putting trash to a better use. Whether it be huge corporations or just people making art it eliminates it from sitting on the streets. Here artist Saimir Strati created a Mosaic using 229,764 corks which earned him the record for the World’s Largest Cork Mosaic. People who stayed at the Sheraton Tirana Hotel and Towers got to personally see the artist working 14 hours a day until he finally finished on September 4th.

Everyday around the world people are putting trash to a better use. Some do this by creating their homes or even building a playground for the kids, or adults, to play on and others simply make some amazing designs. You can check out the sculptures from all over the world below and as they say, one mans trash is another mans treasure.

I have seen some really cool designs created by cutting shrubs in different shapes but this I have never seen before or even thought to be possible. Well Peter Cook and Becky Northey got tired of seeing ordinary trees in their yard and decided to try something a bit different by creating a technique called Pooktre. Pooktre is basically shaping trees as the grow into the shape or design that you would like.

Designers and artist are always looking for something new and unique to create. Whether it be with ECO friendly products or not they make some pretty cool designs and sculptures. Here is something that I honestly hope was made just for the sake of art and not to try to sell. These are Underwear’s Made From Soda Cans and was designed by Ingrid Goldbloom. All of the pieces where made from recycled soda cans and lets hope no one tries to try these on =P. More up close pictures are available below and on her Flickr.

Bamboo has many great features that make it usable for many different things. From building, to means of transportation and even food for Pandas Bamboo is truly amazing. Here is the Japan Society’s Bamboo Exhibit which takes bamboo and transforms it into amazing pieces of art. I personally never thought that this could be done with bamboo but apparently it can.

Growing up many of us wanted to build a tree house in the tree in our backyard or in our friends trees. The picture above is from an exhibition in Madison Square Garden which featured work by Tadashi Kawamata and is called the Madison Square Tree Huts. All of the huts where constructed on site and built with materials found and construction scraps. Another cool thing about these huts is that they where built with rubber sheets so that the bark of the tree does not get crapped or penetrated. This is definitely a cool art exhibition and if you would like more info you can head over to the Madison Square Garden Conservancy website.via Ih

Halloween is here and what beater way to celebrate then by showing you a giant skull made from recycled kitchen utensils. This sculpture was crafted by Indian artist Subodh Gupta and I have to say that it came out quite nice. I think it would be cool to add some LED lights in the eyes to give an added effect. You may think hey those scraps could have been recycled and reused for better purposes but sculptures like this tend to send a message and at least the scraps aren’t laying around on the streets or in landfills. via ecofriend