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canada There are approximately 600 sushi restaurants in Vancouver, argu- ably making it the sushi capital of North America. Before the pandemic, over 100,000 chopsticks and other wooden utensils were used once and thrown out every day, according to a 2018 study by Metro Vancouver. In 2016, Felix Böck, then a 27-year- old studying sustainable construction materials at the University of British Columbia, was sitting in a sushi restaurant when he realized he was holding an underused resource in his own hand. Thus ChopValue was born. Böck’s start-up recycles used wooden chopsticks and transforms them into